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Royal Assassin John Gardner Book Award for Fiction (2011) He describes the 'dark side'Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as kings assassin, but is left little more than a cripple. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd, remaining in the distant mountains. But love and events of terrible urgency draw him back to the court at Buckkeep, and into the deadly intrigues of the royal family. Renewing their vicious attacks on the coast, the Red Ship Raiders leave burned out villages and demented victims in