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In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is... read more

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First Sentence

At the height of the long wet summer of the Seventy-seventh Year of Sendovani, the Thiefmaker of Camorr paid a sudden and unannounced visit to the Eyeless Priest at the Temple of Perelandro, desperately hoping to sell him the Lamora boy.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Boy Who Stole Too Much

I. Part One: Ambition
1. The Don Salvara Game
Interlude: Locke Explains
2. Second Touch at the Teeth Show
Interlude: Locke Stays for Dinner
3. Imaginary Men
Interlude: The Last Mistake

II. Part Two: Complication
4. At the Court of Capa Barsavi
Interlude: The Boy Who Cried for a Corpse
5. The Gray King
Interlude: Jean Tannen
6. Limitations
Interlude: Brat Masterpieces
7. Out the Window
Interlude: Up the River
8. The Funeral Cask
Interlude: The Half-Crown War

III. Part Three: Revelation
9. A Curious Tale for Countess Amberglass
Interlude: The Schoolmaster of Roses
10. Teeth Lessons
Interlude: The Tale of the Old Handball Players
11. At the Court of Capa Raza
Interlude: The Lady of the Long Silence

IV. Desperate Improvisation
12. The Fat Priest from Tal Verrar
Interlude: The White Iron Conjurers
13. Orchids and Assassins
14. Three Invitations
Interlude: The Daughters of Camorr
15. Spiderbite
Interlude: The Throne in Ashes
16. Justice is Red
Interlude: A Minor Prophecy
Epilogue: Falselight

Series

This is book 1 in the The Gentleman Bastard Sequence series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Scott Lynch (Author)
 

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