Dragon -- Steven Brust

<p><b>In which Vlad Taltos finds himself, much to his surprise, at the fateful Battle of Baritt's Tomb</b> <p/>Marching through mud just isn't as much fun as they say. <p/>After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade he knows best--killing people for a living--suddenly Vlad Taltos finds himself in the last place any self-respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Worse, he's right in the middle of a apocalyptic battle between two sorcerous armies, and everyone expects him to play a role they won't explain. All Vlad's got between him and the worst kind of death is his wits. Oh, and a smart-mouthed winged lizard... <p/><i>Dragon</i> is Steven Brust at his best--a swashbuckling fantasy adventure.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Steven Brust<br><b>Publisher:</b> Tor Books<br><b>Published:</b> 11/15/1999<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.70lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781250163707<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p>Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian labor organizers, <b>Steven Brust</b> worked as a musician and a computer programmer before coming to prominence as a writer in 1983 with <i>Jhereg</i>, the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos, a human professional assassin in a world dominated by long-lived, magically-empowered human-like "Dragaerans." <p/>Over the next several years, several more "Taltos" novels followed, interspersed with other work, including <i>T