title: Night of Knives: A Novel of the Malazan Empire
author:  Ian C. Esslemont 
description: Ian Cameron Esslemont was born in 1962 in Winnipeg and now lives in Alaska with his family. He is currently completing a Ph.D in Literature and writing a second novel set in the world of Malaz.<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
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  **NIGHT OF KNIVES**
  
  A NOVEL OF THE MALAZAN  
  EMPIRE
  
   **Ian C. Esslemont**
  
    
    
    
  
  ![](Images/image00164.jpeg)  
  A Tom Doherty Associates Book
  
  New York
  
    
    
  
  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations,  
  and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the  
  author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  
    
  
  NIGHT OF KNIVES: A NOVEL OF THE MALAZAN EMPIRE
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2005 by Ian Cameron Esslemont
  
    
  
  Introduction copyright © 2005 by Steven Erikson
  
    
  
  Maps © Neil Gower
  
    
  
  Previously published in the UK in 2005 by PS Publishing  
  LLP and in 2007 by Bantam Press, a division of  
  Transworld Publishers.
  
    
  
  All rights reserved.
  
    
  
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
    
  
  Esslemont, Ian C. (Ian Cameron)
  