Flight of the Nighthawks: Book One of the Darkwar Saga

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Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 400 pages

The New York Times bestselling author revisits his signature world of Midkemia in this first book in a new trilogy that ushers in the third, and most dramatic, Riftwar yet: the Darkwar

Flight of Nighthawks picks up two years after Exile’s Return as Pug, the powerful sorcerer, awakens from a nightmare that portends destruction for all of Midkemia. Disturbed by his dream, Pug calls for a convening of the Conclave of Shadows.

Meanwhile, in a small town on the other side of Midkemia, two young brothers are coming of age. As they travel away from home, towards apprenticeships and adulthood, the boys are attacked by bandits and mistakenly transported to Sorcerer’s Isle, the home of the Conclave of Shadows.

Though they are untrained and unready, the brothers will join the powerful, mysterious Conclave to confront Midkemia’s most looming evil yet—the Nighthawks, assassins feared throughout the centuries. And Pug will face his old nemesis, the evil wizard formerly known as Sidi, now Leso Varen, in a confrontation with everything at stake: his honor, his life, and the future of Midkemia.

 

Contents

Prologue
1
Brothers
8
Council
32
Three
43
Journey
49
Dark Goddess
75
Five
88
Seven
118
Thirteen
200
Fourteen
217
Fifteen
236
Sixteen
252
Seventeen
266
Eighteen
287
Nineteen
299
Twenty
312

Eight
133
Nine
148
Conspiracy
173
Twelve
189
TwentyOne
325
TwentyTwo
346
Epilogue
365
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Raymond E. Feist is the author of more than thirty previous books, including the internationally bestselling “Riftwar Cycle” of novels set in his signature world of Midkemia, the Empire trilogy co-authored with Janny Wurts, as well as a stand-alone novel, Faerie Tale. The Firemane Saga is his first all-new epic fantasy series. He lives in San Diego, California.

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