Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy)

Fitz is about to discover the truth about the Fool's prophecy. Having been resurrected from his fatal tortures in Regal's dungeons | Fitz has once more foiled Regal's attempts to be rid of him. Now | back in his own body and after months of rehabilitation | Fitz begins the painful and slow process of learning the ways of a man again. Under the watchful eye of Burrich | old King Shrewd's Stable master | Fitz must learn to cast off the wild but carefree ways of the wolf and enter once more the human world: a world beset ever more viciously by the relentless Red Ship Raiders who are now left free to plunder any coastal town they please. But more immediately | a world in which he finds he is utterly alone. Regal has stripped the kingdom of its riches and retired to the inland city of Trade ford. Of Verity | on his quest to find the legendary Elderings | there has been no word | Molly | Kettricken and the Fool have all vanished. Unless Fitz can find Verity and help him in his quest | the Six Duchies will perish and there will be no safe place to live.