All The World's A Happy Stage. Until the knives come out... Lyorn is the newest adventure in Steven Brust’s bestselling Vlad Taltos series Another Opening...Another Cataclysm? Vlad Taltos is on the run. Again. This time from one of the most powerful forces in his world, the Left Hand, who are intent on ending his very lucrative career. Permanently. He finds a hidey-hole in a theatre where the players are putting on a show that was banned centuries ago...and is trying to be shut down by the House that once literally killed to keep it from being played. Vlad will take on a number of roles to save his own skin. And the skins of those he loves. And along the way, he’s might find a part that was tailor-made for him. One that he might not want...but was always his destiny.

All The World's A Happy Stage. Until the knives come out... Lyorn is the newest adventure in Steven Brust’s bestselling Vlad Taltos series Another Opening...Another Cataclysm? Vlad Taltos is on the run. Again. This time from one of the most powerful forces in his world, the Left Hand, who are intent on ending his very lucrative career. Permanently. He finds a hidey-hole in a theatre where the players are putting on a show that was banned centuries ago...and is trying to be shut down by the House that once literally killed to keep it from being played. Vlad will take on a number of roles to save his own skin. And the skins of those he loves. And along the way, he’s might find a part that was tailor-made for him. One that he might not want...but was always his destiny.