Matthias isn't like the other children at Saint Gregory’s Abbey; neither is his sister Rebecca. Indeed, news of their 'gifts' attracts some unwanted interest and late one night a stranger arrives to carry out a bloody slaughter. Matthias is the only one to escape.
After meeting Alonso, a mysterious Spanish mystic, he is offered the chance to join a school for assassins and take up arms in a secret war that has been raging throughout history. There he learns not only the sword but the art of being a gentleman; how to court a lady and to slit a nobleman’s throat.
But all is not what it seems. What really happened to his parents? Why do ‘The Legion’ seek to pursue an agenda of murder and obliteration? And what did a group of Conquistadors really discover nearly three hundred years ago in the Amazon jungle?
When an opportunity presents itself to avenge his sister Matthias immediately takes it. He has two more gifted friends to help him; Harry whose skills at camouflage allow him to vanish when even in the same room as you; and Sophie who knows more about poisoning than you’d care to mention. Despite this the odds are still stacked against them.
Can he pull off the perfect assassination? Or will he lose his own life and sacrifice that of his friends in the process. Matthias’s thirst for revenge knows no boundaries and he must quench it one way or another whilst unraveling a riddle that has been woven into his life.
Warning: Not suitable for young readers.
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