• Flight of the Night Hawks

  • Darkwar, Book 1
  • By: Raymond E. Feist
  • Narrated by: Peter Joyce
  • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (55 ratings)

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Flight of the Night Hawks

By: Raymond E. Feist
Narrated by: Peter Joyce
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Publisher's summary

The first book in the Darkwar series, from worldwide best-selling author of Magician, Raymond E. Feist.

The Conclave of Shadows, the undercover organisation charged with the protection of Midkemia, have problems: the evil magician Leso Varen is still at large, and thousands of portals to a parallel dimension inhabited by the cruel and fiendish Dasati have been discovered in Novindus.

Leso Varen, a powerful and malignant magician with the power to possess and transport himself from body to body, and his Nighthawk assassins are plotting chaos and annihilation in the royal house of Kesh. The Nameless One is awakening and needs Varen to help him reemerge completely and tip the balance of good and evil in the world, plunging Midkemia into darkness and ruin.

But when the Conclave attempt to warn the emperor, it becomes clear that many of the truebloods - nobles related by birth to the emperor - are already Varen's slaves, both willing and unwitting, and the Conclave are forced into a race against time to save Great Kesh before evil engulfs the land.

Flight of the Night Hawks begins a brand-new series from the master of fantasy, set on a grand scale, revisiting the exotic political intrigue of Great Kesh (touched upon in the classic Riftwar books) and carrying the reader into a dark underworld of crime and black magic.

©2015 Raymond E. Feist (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"File under guilty pleasure." ( Guardian) < br/>"Get in at the start of a master's new series." ( Daily Sport)

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Good Story, but does not reach the Greatness of the Riftwar Saga

This is a good story, expanding on the stories of the Conclave of Shadows. But I keep hoping for the greatness of the Riftwar Saga to return. There is just not the same sense of complexity and adventure as there was in the beginning, and the characters lack depth and colour.
Still, a good listen.

Masterfully told by Peter Joyce! Always an amazing performance.

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