THE ASSASSIN WITHOUT A NAME SERIES
Enter the gas-lit streets of Alchester, where assassins and thieves are your constant companions and distrust is as common as a knife in the back.
About the Series
The Assassin Without a Name has built his reputation on discretion, skill, and a blade that never misses its mark. But when a routine contract drags him into a deadly conspiracy, he uncovers a secret war that has raged for centuries between death priests hell-bent on freeing an imprisoned god and a secret society willing to condemn a city to stop them.
When the most unlikely of allies—thieves, scientists, sorcerers, and a master thief who knows him better than anyone—are forced together by desperation, the Nameless Assassin must navigate a treacherous web of shifting alliances and ancient vengeance. With a celestial convergence approaching and the barrier between worlds growing thinner by the day, neutrality is no longer an option—and one assassin’s choices will decide whether his city survives the coming darkness.
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From the Author
The Assassin Without a Name fantasy adventure series features an assassin with a skill for murder and a penchant for fine wine. Through happenstance and a compulsion to look after his interests, the Nameless Assassin becomes embroiled with malignant forces, and not in a good way. Hunted by Black Guardsmen, plagued by death priests, and reluctantly involved with a society whose mission is to further the advance of technology (some of it ‘dark’ technology), our reluctant hero may take the high road at times, but the memory of one glorious night of murder, when he gave up his true identity and never looked back, always lurks in his mind.
Now, with his city under threat, the Assassin Without a Name will do whatever it takes to preserve his way of life and protect the family who thinks him dead. He gave up his life once so that others could live. If he has to, he’ll do it again.
My influences include Howard, Moorcock, Lovecraft, Leiber, and Gygax, so don’t be surprised if you detect a hint of their form of sword and sorcery in this series. In a way, the books are loosely based on the structure of the timeless Thieves' World books, where an ever-expanding cast of characters interact with one another across an equally expanding cityscape.
This is sword, sorcery, and alchemy at its best. You won’t be disappointed with the result.
Samples
The Assassin's Blade (Assassin Without a Name Book One)
Fine Wine is the first act of The Assassin's Blade. You can read the story in its entirety or listen to it on YouTube.
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The Assassin's Cunning (Assassin Without a Name Book Two)
Black Guard's Reprisal is the first act of The Assassin's Cunning. You can read the story in its entirety or listen to it on YouTube.
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The Assassin's Code (Assassin Without a Name Book Three)
Finrad's Magnificent Tower is the first act of The Assassin's Code. You can read the story in its entirety or listen to it on YouTube.
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The Assassin's Skill (Assassin Without a Name Book Four)
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