A NEW LEGEND BEGINS...
Fitz starts life as a royal bastard cast onto the streets, with only animals and street children for company. But soon he will hold the power over life and death in his hands as
THE ASSASSIN'S APPRENTICE.
His uncle, King Shrewd, is in need of a new assassin, a career beset with perils both physical and ethical.
Young Fitz finds himself even more alone: for no one can trust am assassin; and he can confide the secret of his birth - and of the Wit - his gift of speaking directly into the minds of beasts, which carries a death penalty - to no one. Not even to Molly Nosebleed, the chandler's daughter; nor Chade, to whom he is apprenticed; nor to the Fool, who offers him obscure but significant advice, nor Burrich, the stablemaster, his gruff mentor.
And all the while, the Kingdom is beset by terrifying but mysterious raiders, who descend on the coastal villages, leaving nightmare in their wake...