The first book in the Darkwar series from world-wide bestselling 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 & thousands of portals to a parallel dimension inhabited by the cruel & fiendish Dasati have been discovered in Novindus Leso Varen a powerful & malign magician with the power to possess & transport himself from body to body & his Nighthawk assassins are plotting chaos & annihilation in the royal house of Kesh The Nameless One is awakening & needs Varen to help him re-emerge completely & tip the balance of good & evil in the world plunging Midkemia into darkness & 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 & unwitting & 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) & carrying the reader into a dark underworld of crime & black magic