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The Penitent Damned by Django Wexler, The Shadow Campaings #0.5 Alex is a master thief, with dark magic to give her an edge. When she goes up against Duke Orlanko's Concordat secret police, though, she may have taken on more than she bargained for... Last year Django Wexler published his first book in The Shadow Campaigns series, The Thousand Names , which was followed just a few weeks back by the sequel in the series, The Shadow Throne , where he really had outdone himself, tranforming his storyline into the right direction! When I was adding the book on goodreads I found that there was a short story written prior to the events of The Thousand Names called The Penitent Damned , and since this is now one of my favorite currently running series, there was no other choice than to catch up with it! Django Wexler doesn't hesitate one moment to throw you as a reader in the midst of an assassin/thieving/backstabbing kind of a story. The Penitent Damned is set before The ...

Author interview with Django Wexler Author bio: Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not planning Shadow Campaigns, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts. ----------------------------------------------  Hi Django, welcome over to The Book Plank and for taking your time to answer these few questions. BP: First off, could you give us a short introduction as to who Django Wexler is, what are your hobbies, likes and dislikes? DW: I think of myself as pretty typical of my breed, which is "computer/SFF nerd".  I like to read, obviously, and I like games of almost any sort -- tabletop games, board games, war games, video ga...