(ReacTor) Killer Plots: Five Books Featuring Professional Assassins

Tony Nance

2024-04-25 20:39:27 UTC

Post by James Nicoll
Killer Plots: Five Books Featuring Professional Assassins
Whether you're pursued by hired thugs, trained assassins, or an
unhinged killer, fleeing an attempt on your life is one great way
to kick off an adventure...
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Y'know - Polar City Blues has been in my short stack for months. I need
to just grab it and read it.

There's Vlad Taltos, of course. (And a few others in the House of
Jhereg, especially Cawti.)

In Sanderson's Stormlight Archive books (where I have stalled out in #4,
perhaps permanently[1]), one of the main characters is more or less
forced to be an assassin, and he's very good at it.

Assassins show up in a few different places & ways in Erikson's Malazan
series. But I'm not remembering which ones (if any) are actually featured.

Tony
[1] The book is over 1200 pages long, and it looks like one of the main
characters will go through the depths of clinical depression for around
1000 of them. I don't think I'm going to subject myself to that.