- Bodyguards, Imaginary societies, Assassins, Fiction
Girton Club-foot has no family, a crippled leg, and is apprenticed to the best assassin in the land. He's learning the art of taking lives, but his latest mission tasks him with a far more difficult challenge: to save a life. Someone is trying to kill the heir to the throne, and it is up to Girton to uncover the traitor and prevent the prince's murder.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- R. J. Barker
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 425
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316466493
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