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HEROES DIE
But Caine's no hero. He's an assassin.
Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes. He is relentless, unstoppable, simply the best there is at what he does. He is free.
At home on Earth, Caine is Hari Michaelson, a superstar whose adventures command an audience of billions. Yet he is shackled by a rigid caste society, bound to ignore the grim fact that men die on a far-off world for the entertainment of his own planet--bound to keep his rage in check.
But now Michaelson has crossed the line. His estranged wife, Pallas Rill, has mysteriously disappeared in the slums of Ankhana. To save her, he must confront the greatest challenge of his life: a lethal game of cat and mouse with the most treacherous rulers of two worlds.
Matthew Woodring Stover has created a spectacular, page-turning epic where a Jackal-type assassin maneuvers through a vivid Tolkienesque world. With a plot as driven as its main character and drawn against a setting as vivid as the very best in fantasy, Heroes Die is a brilliant feat of the imagination.
Synopsis
In his previous novels, Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon, Matthew Woodring Stover has proven himself one of the most exceptionally talented newcomers to arrive on the fantasy landscape since Robert Jordan. In the best storytelling tradition, he weaves relentless pacing, inventive wordbuilding, and larger-than-life characters into an unputdownable tale. With his new novel, "Heroes Die", Stover surpasses his earlier formidable achievements.
Rife with magic and adventure, this extraordinarily ambitious fantasy chronicles the adventures of Hari Michaelson -- merely a popular actor on Earth, but a renowned and deadly assassin known as Caine, the Blade of Tyshalle, on the planet Overworld. At Caine's hands, monarchs have died and governments toppled. Now his estranged wife has mysteriously vanished in the Overworld slums, and Michaelson must confront the greatest challenge of his life: a lethal game of cat and mouse with the most treacherous rulers of both Earth and Overworld.