The Demon Cycle novel has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.īrett lives in Manhattan with his wife Lauren and his daughters Cassandra and Sirena. īrett's novellas include the 2010 book The Great Bazaar and Other Stories, the 2011 book Brayan's Gold, and the 2014 book Messenger's Legacy.

Another contender is a desert warrior, a former friend and betrayer of Arlen, who carries a mystical spear (stolen from Arlen) and heads a vast army intent on a holy war against the demons and anyone else who stands in the way. One is Arlen Bales, formerly of a small hamlet who, after many hard lessons, has become the Warded Man (so called because he has covered himself in demon-warding runes). In The Desert Spear two men are claimed by their own followers to be humanity's prophesied Deliverer. The book and its sequels have been translated into twenty three languages, including German, French, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Estonian, Turkish, Italian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese and Danish. Against this backdrop the three main characters Arlen, Leesha, and Rojer, pass into maturity and begin individual quests to bring an end to the terror. These are powerful beings with magical abilities and differing elemental natures, and each night they emerge from the planet's core to feed on humans, who must take care to be indoors before dark. The novel takes place on a formerly advanced civilization world that has now been reduced to a dark age by the attacks of demons known as Corelings.

Career īrett wrote his 2008 novel The Painted Man ( The Warded Man in the US) and much of his second novel on his HP iPaq 6515 while on the New York City subway. He developed an interest in fantasy from an early age. Peter Brett studied English Literature and Art History at the University at Buffalo, graduating in 1995, after which he spent more than ten years working in the pharmaceutical publication field before writing full-time. He is the author of the Demon Cycle, whose first volume was published in the UK by HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in 2008 as The Painted Man and in the US by Del Rey Books as The Warded Man.

Brett (born February 8, 1973) is an American fantasy novelist.

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