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Description
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
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Locke Lamora: A con artist of unusual talent and leader of the Gentlemen Bastards. He was found as an orphan in Catchfire district of Camorr and sold to the Theifmaker who then sold him to Father Chains, where he was apprenticed in the art of confidence games.
Memorable Quotes
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“Bug stepped forward and cleared his throat. "I'm only doing this," he said, "because I really love hiding in haunted Eldren buildings on dark and creepy nights." "You're a liar," said Jean, slowly. "I'm only doing this because I've always wanted to see Bug get eaten by an Eldren ghost." "Liar," said Calo. "I'm only doing this because I fucking love hauling half a ton of bloody coins out a vault and packing them away on a cart." "Liar!" Galdo chuckled. "I'm only doing this because while you're all busy elsewhere, I'm going to go pawn all the furniture in the burrow at No-Hope Harza's." "You're all liars," said Locke as their eyes turned expectantly to him. "We're only doing this because nobody else in Camorr is good enough to pull this off, and nobody else is dumb enough to get stuck doing it in the first place." "Bastard!" They shouted in unison, forgetting their surroundings for a bare moment.”
Bug, Jean Tannen, Calo and Galdo Sanza, Locke Lamora
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
- Scott Lynch (Author)
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