Assassin's Apprentice
Fitz the royal bastard begins his training as the king's assassin.
Assassin's Apprentice is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, published in 1995, the first book of the Farseer trilogy and the first she published under that pen name. It was written under the working title Chivalry's Bastard.
Quick Facts
- Author
- Robin Hobb
- Cover artist
- Michael Whelan
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Series
- The Farseer Trilogy
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Publisher
- Spectra (US); Voyager Books (UK)
- Published
- 1 April 1995 (US)
Facts from the source article.
Background
A six-year-old boy is brought to the Farseers' outpost at Moonseye as the bastard son of King-in-Waiting Chivalry, who abdicates and later dies without meeting him. Called Fitz and raised at Buckkeep by the stableman Burrich, he discovers the Wit, which Burrich forbids, swears fealty to King Shrewd and is secretly trained as an assassin by Chade Fallstar. As the Red-Ship Raiders turn captives into Forged Ones, Fitz is taught the Skill under Galen and becomes King's Man to Prince Verity. Sent to the Mountain Kingdom, where Verity is to marry Princess Kettricken, he uncovers Prince Regal's plot to kill Verity and thwarts it, almost at the cost of his life. The novel was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award in 1997.
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