Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, Vol. 1)

"a New Star Is Rising In The Fantasy Firmament...teems With Magic And Spine-chilling Amounts Of Skullduggery."–dave Duncan, Author Of the Great Game when Young Alec Of Kerry Is Taken Prisoner For A Crime He Didn’t Commit, He Is Certain That His Life Is At An End. But One Thing He Never Expected Was His Cellmate. Spy, Rogue, Thief, And Noble, Seregil Of Rhiminee Is Many Things–none Of Them Predictable. And When He Offers To Take On Alec As His Apprentice, Things May Never Be The Same For Either Of Them. Soon Alec Is Traveling Roads He Never Knew Existed, Toward A War He Never Suspected Was Brewing. Before Long He And Seregil Are Embroiled In A Sinister Plot That Runs Deeper Than Either Can Imagine, And That May Cost Them Far More Than Their Lives If They Fail. But Fortune Is As Unpredictable As Alec’s New Mentor, And This Time There Just Might Be…luck In The Shadows. When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didnt commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many thingsnone of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alecs new mentor, and this time there just might be Luck in the Shadows. A showman, spy, thief--Seregil gathers intelligence information for the Queen about the threat of war by Plenimar. During one of his missions, he discovers an orphan lad and takes him on as an apprentice. When a mission goes awry, leaving Seregil in a coma, it falls to Alec to get his mentor to safety in order to avert a sinister plot of epic proportios Seregil--thief, con artist, and spy in the employ of the queen's wizard--takes an apprentice in his struggle against a surreal world of intrigue, magic, and politics engineered by Plenimar, the queen's ancient foe.