The Painted Man

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Harper Voyager, 2008 - Fiction - 544 pages
This stunning debut novel from author Peter Brett, book one of the Demon Cycle, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure. Mankind has ceded the night to the corelings: demons that rise up out of the ground each day at dusk, killing and destroying at will until dawn, when the sun banishes them back to the Core. As darkness falls, the world's few surviving humans hide behind magical wards, praying that the magic will see them through another night. Born into these isolated hamlets are three children. These three children all have something in common. They are all stubborn, and know that there is more to the world than what they've been told, if only they can risk leaving their safe wards to find it.

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About the author (2008)

Peter V. Brett was born in New Rochelle, New York, on February 8, 1973. He received a B.A. in English, with a minor in Art History, from the University at Buffalo, in 1995. Prior to devoting himself to writing full time, he worked in the medical publishing field for ten years. He sold his 4th novel, The Painted Man (UK), aka, The Warded Man (US), which was the first in the Demon Cycle Series. The other books in the series include,The Desert Spear, The Daylight War, Messenger's Legacy, The Skull Throne, and The Core.