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{{Short description|1995 novel by Robin Hobb}}
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{{Infobox book  | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = Assassin's Apprentice
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice Cover.jpg
| caption = First edition (US)
| author        = [[Robin Hobb]]
| cover_artist  = [[Michael Whelan]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = [[The Farseer Trilogy]]
| subject       = 
| genre         = [[Fantasy fiction|Fantasy]]
| publisher     = [[Bantam Spectra|Spectra]] (US)<br>[[Voyager Books]] (UK)
| pub_date      = 1 April 1995 (US)
| media_type    = Print (Paperback & Hardback in the UK, Paperback in the US)
| pages         = 400 pp (first edition, hardback)
| isbn = 0-00-224606-6
| isbn_note = (first edition, hardback)
| oclc= 60223865
| preceded_by   = <!-- First book in series -->
| followed_by   = [[Royal Assassin]]
}}

'''''Assassin's Apprentice''''' is a [[fantasy fiction|fantasy]] novel by American writer [[Robin Hobb]], the first book in ''[[The Farseer Trilogy]].''  It was Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden's first book under this pseudonym, and was published in 1995. The book was written under the working title ''Chivalry’s Bastard''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=25 Years of Spectra: Assassin's Apprentice (1995) Robin Hobb |url=http://suvudu.com/2010/06/25-years-of-spectra-assassins-apprentice-1995-by-robin-hobb.html |access-date=February 27, 2014 |publisher=[[Suvudu]]}}</ref>

The novel covers the early life of [[Characters in the Realm of the Elderlings#FitzChivalry|FitzChivalry]], a [[royal bastard]] living in Buckkeep Castle as he begins his training as an [[assassination|assassin]] and successfully safeguards the throne from his over-ambitious uncle Regal, almost at the cost of his life. The stories of characters found in the ''Farseer Trilogy'' continue in the ''[[Tawny Man Trilogy]]'' and ''the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy''. Other series, ''[[The Liveship Traders]]'' and ''The Rain Wild Chronicles'', are set in the same world and in the same timeframe, with some [[Fictional crossover|crossover]].