Raymond E. Feist

Hatushaly e la moglie Hava sono arrivati nella prospera città mercantile di Colle Beran per ristrutturare e riaprire la taverna delle Tre Stelle. Ma i due non sono una semplice coppia di innamorati. Sono assassini provenienti dalla misteriosa isola di Coaltachin, patria dei potenti e letali nocusara. Fingendosi locandieri, attendono istruzioni dai loro superiori nel Regno della Notte. Hatu, però, nasconde un segreto ancora più pericoloso: è l’unico erede della leggendaria dinastia dei Chioma di Fuoco, la famiglia regnante di Ithrace. Dopo il tradimento, venne nascosto tra i nocusara che lo allevarono per farne una spia assassina, mantenendo segreta la sua vera identità. Ma quando una serie di terribili eventi manda in frantumi la pace di Colle Beran, portando morte e devastazione, Hatu si ritrova a compiere delle scelte che mai avrebbe osato immaginare. Forze oscure e potenti tornano a minacciare il mondo di Garn in questo secondo romanzo dell’epico ciclo di Firemane, di Raymond E. Feist.

Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. This are his famous books of The Riftwar Saga serie

The RiftWar is done. But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle… New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist returns to a beleaguered realm of wonders and magic-where war is an enduring legacy; where blood swells the rivers and nourishes the land. Attend to this hitherto untold chapter in the violent history of Midkemia – a towering saga of great conflicts, brave acts and insidious intrigues. It is the story of a traitor who rejects the brutality of his warlike kind and casts his lot with the human targets of their fierce aggression…

After nearly 30 years and more than two dozen novels, Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Cycle has become one of the most iconic, beloved, and enduring sagas in modern fantasy. The Riftwars were epic battles between Good and Evil whose ramifications have echoed through generations. The latest entry in the epic, A Kingdom Besieged, ushers in the most fearsome threat the Kingdom has yet faced - the Chaoswar - a magic apocalypse with cataclysmic results…

The second Tal Hawkins novel expands the saga in Feist's usual deft fashion. Tal is now high up among what might be called the agents of the Conclave of Shadows and assigned to the duke of Olasko, his mortal enemy for destroying his family and people. To be effective, Tal must further disguise himself to enter the duke's service and there ferret out his secrets and find his weak points. Readers who remember how quickly Tal rose in Talon of the Silver Hawk will stop complaining that he hasn't earned the pleasures and privileges he then enjoyed once they get far into this book. Olasko's manners and morals would make the Waffen SS blanch, and they go totally against Tal's principles…

A prolific purveyor of solid conventional fantasy launches a new Midkemia saga, Conclave of Shadows. Kieli, a young boy of the mountain-dwelling Orosini, is the sole survivor of a massacre of his people by ruthless mercenaries. From a bird that visits him when he thinks he is dying, he takes the name Talon of the Silver Hawk, and re-enters civilization with a vague notion of destiny and the grimly focused aspiration to avenge his people. As he matures, he is drawn into the arms of a good many women and even farther into the machinations of the sorcerers of the Shadow Conclave, headed by Pug and Miranda, old friends to fans of previous Midkemia sagas…

While Magician is almost a stand alone book, Silverthorn continues the series with the focus shifted slightly to emphasise the stories of different protagonists. Feist's spectacular vernacular continues to shine and yet never does the language prove to be a barrier to tale itself … in fact it remains quite easy to read.

Diciassette anni dopo il tradimento ai danni di re Steveren Langene, re di Ithrace, gli altri quattro sovrani di Garn credono di aver ormai sterminato la dinastia dei Chioma di Fuoco. Eppure, il barone Daylon Dumarch riesce a mettere in salvo l'ultimo erede di Langene, anche lui dai capelli rosso fuoco come i suoi antenati, affidandolo alle cure di Coaltachin, la misteriosa Nazione Invisibile controllata dalle migliori spie di Garn. Benché Hatushaly venga addestrato a diventare un letale sicario, l'erede al trono di Ithrace non conosce le proprie origini e sente di non appartenere a quel mondo di criminali senza cuore. Ormai vicino alla maggiore età, il ragazzo scopre di essere molto più di un semplice orfano e di possedere poteri sconosciuti..