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Assassin!
''The Way of the Tiger'' is a series of adventure gamebooks by Mark Smith (author), Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson (author), Jamie Thomson, originally published by Knight Books (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) from 1985. They are set on the fantasy world of Orb. The reader takes the part of a young monk/ninja, named Avenger, initially on a quest to avenge his foster father's murder and recover stolen scrolls. Later books presented other challenges for Avenger to overcome, most notably taking over and ruling a city. The world of Orb was originally created by Mark Smith for a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game he ran while a pupil at Brighton College in the mid-1970s. Orb was also used as the setting for the 1984 Fighting Fantasy gamebook ''Talisman of Death'', and one of the settings in the 1985 Falcon gamebook ''Lost in Time'', both by Smith and Thomson. The sixth book, ''Inferno!'', ends on a cliffhanger with Avenger trapped in the web of the Black Widow, Orb's darkest blight. As no n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Smith (author)
Mark Smith is the author of several fantasy gamebooks. Background Smith is of Czech-Hungarian/English descent and was born in Birmingham. He was educated in Brighton and went on to gain an MA in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University. He also spent some time racing in Formula Renault. Career Mark Smith is an author of gamebooks, including co-authoring two ''Fighting Fantasy'' titles ''(Talisman of Death'' and ''Sword of the Samurai (Fighting Fantasy), Sword of the Samurai''), and the series ''Duel Master'', ''Falcon (adventure book), Falcon'' and ''Way of the Tiger'' (1985-1987), all of which he co-authored with Jamie Thomson (author), Jamie Thomson, whom he met whilst at school in Brighton. Today, Smith remains in southeast England, having been made insolvent by HMRC in December 2020. List of works *Fighting Fantasy #11: Talisman of Death *Fighting Fantasy #20: Sword of the Samurai (gamebook), Sword of the Samurai *Falcon **The Renegade Lord **Mechanon **The Rack of Baa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |