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The First Kill

By: Django Wexler
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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"The First Kill" was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues.

About this story, author Django Wexler says, "'The First Kill' is a bit of backstory for the universe of The Shadow Campaigns. It's always hard to give a proper spotlight to the villains in a novel where they don't get a POV, so I wanted to take this chance to explore that a little. The Shadow Throne implies a connection between Andreas, Duke Orlanko's brutally efficient go-to killer, and Sothe, the Gray Rose, his best agent turned bitter enemy. In this story, we get to see these two at an earlier point in their careers, and take a look at how that relationship got started."

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This hit all the right boxes for a short story in that I now want to read/listen to this series in its entirety.

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very education and entertaining, definitely recommend to anyone. i loved the narration too. and stories, was engaging from beginning to end. Placing rainbow history within the context of world

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