THE PAINTED MAN
AND
THE DESERT SPEAR
Books One and Two of The Demon Cycle
PETER V. BRETT

Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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The Painted Man First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2008

The Desert Spear First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2010

Copyright © Peter V. Brett

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

The Painted Man

The Desert Spear

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

THE
PAINTED
MAN
PETER V. BRETT

To Otzi, the original Painted Man.

Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Map

SECTION I: Tibbet’s Brook

Chapter 1: Aftermath

Chapter 2: If It Was You

Chapter 3: A Night Alone

Chapter 4: Leesha

Chapter 5: Crowded Home

Chapter 6: The Secrets of Fire

Chapter 7: Rojer

Chapter 8: To the Free Cities

Chapter 9: Fort Miln

SECTION II: Miln

Chapter 10: Apprentice

Chapter 11: Breach

Chapter 12: Library

Chapter 13: There Must Be More

Chapter 14: The Road to Angiers

Chapter 15: Fiddle Me a Fortune

Chapter 16: Attachments

SECTION III: Krasia

Chapter 17: Ruins

Chapter 18: Rite of Passage

Chapter 19: The First Warrior of Krasia

Chapter 20: Alagai’sharak

Chapter 21: Only a Chin

Chapter 22: Play the Hamlets

Chapter 23: Rebirth

Chapter 24: Needles and Ink

SECTION IV: Cutter’s Hollow

Chapter 25: A New Venue

Chapter 26: Hospit

Chapter 27: Nightfall

Chapter 28: Secrets

Chapter 29: In the Pre-dawn Light

Chapter 30: Plague

Chapter 31: The Battle of Cutter’s Hollow

Chapter 32: Cutter’s No More

Acknowledgements

Copyright

Section I

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