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The Painted Man By Peter Brett ISBN13: 9780007276158

As the novel opens, fragmented societies of humans struggle for continued existence in a world where the night is controlled by demons. Only a few people, it emerges, have the courage to try to reclaim the knowledge required from the past in order to try to create a better future. Only by combining forces and knowledge gained from a variety of sources can humankind hope to survive. But is there hope beyond survival itself?
In the world created by Mr Brett, we have the struggle between good and evil against a background of lost knowledge and of overwhelming fear. I have enjoyed this opening novel in the trilogy, and am looking forward to the next in the series.