Act of Atonement: Book One
In Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle, Matthew Stover created a new kind
of fantasy novel, and a new kind of hero to go with it: Caine, a street
thug turned superstar, battling in a future where reality shows take
place in another dimension, on a world where magic exists and gods are
up close and personal. In that beautiful, savage land, Caine is an
assassin without peer, a living legend born from one of the
highest-rated reality shows ever made. That season, Caine almost
single-handedly defeated – and all but exterminated – the fiercest of all
tribes: the Black Knives. But the shocking truth of what really took
place during that blood-drenched adventure has never been revealed... until now.
Thirty years later, Caine returns to the scene of
his greatest triumph – some would say greatest crime – at the request of
his adopted brother Orbek, the last of the true Black Knives. But where
Caine goes, danger follows, and he soon finds himself back in familiar
territory: fighting for his life against impossible odds, with the fate
of two worlds hanging in the balance.
Just the way Caine likes it.
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About the Author :: Matthew Stover
Matthew Woodring Stover (born 1962) is an American fantasy novelist. Stover graduated in 1983 from Drake University and settled in Chicago. Stover is a student of the Degerberg Blend. This jeet kune do concept is a mixture of approximately twenty-five different fighting arts from around the world. This combat style influences the way Stover writes his fight scenes, for which he has won considerable acclaim. He lives in Chicago with artist and writer Robyn Fielder.
Stover is the acclaimed author of two fantasy novels, Iron Dawn and Jericho Moona, and two science-fiction and fantasy hybrid stories featuring a hero named Caine: Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle. Stover lists some of his prime influences as Roger Zelazny, ... (more)
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