Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele-and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior…and excruciatingly impeccable play. This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can’t rest for long-and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.Īfter a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. the Bondsmagi of Karthain.In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. But not even their sojourn as buccaneers can keep the Gentlemen Bastards from their much-desired reckoning with all the powers that have conspired to interrupt their lives, including the last people in the world any sane person would want to offend. Locke and Jean find their abiding friendship tested to its very limits in this strange new world of lurching wooden decks, brutal ship-to-ship action, and feuding pirate captains. Fine work for a pair of landlubbing thieves barely able to tell one end of a ship from the other! Someone else in Tal Verrar wants the Gentlemen Bastards’ expertise, and they’re not gentle in compelling Locke and Jean to devote their talents to an even more unlikely and suicidal proposition- masquerading as pirates on the high seas. Naturally, Locke plans to take it for a fortune, in his biggest gamble yet. No thief has ever survived an attempt to rob it. exclusive, luxurious, and fiendishly guarded. The Sinspire is the ultimate gambling house. But they can’t run forever, and after escaping Camorr they decide to head for the richest and most difficult target on the horizon- the city-state of Tal Verrar. Locke Lamora, the erstwhile Thorn of Camorr, and Jean Tannen have fled their home city and the wreckage of their lives. Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster, v, iii Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Edward Millerīook II of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence
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