The Assassin's Apprentice Books in Order

This series moves away from Sanchez's urban detective mode and into a darker secondary-world fantasy setup. From the available books, it looks built around a young assassin's path through a violent world where dragons, power struggles, and survival all push against each other.

The Birth of Death suggests a beginning shaped by training, initiation, and the kind of choices that define a killer early. The later dragon-titled books point to a widening conflict, with the personal story opening into something bigger and more dangerous. That is a pattern Sanchez likes, starting close to the character and then pulling the world wider around them.

Expect a harder edge here.

Even without the New York setting of some of his better known books, the energy feels familiar. The pace is forward. The threats are immediate. Power is never abstract. It costs something, and the people closest to it usually pay first.

If his other series often ask what happens when magic collides with city life, this one seems more interested in what happens when a trained killer has to survive a world shaped by dragons, hierarchy, and shifting loyalties. Readers who want the fantasy side of his work without the modern setting will probably feel at home here.