An orphan's life is harsh---and often short---in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged...
An orphan's life is harsh---and often short---in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged...
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An orphan's life is harsh---and often short---in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains---a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans---a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting.
Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworld's most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. But there is someone in the shadows more powerful---and more ambitious---than Locke has yet imagined.
Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsavi's most trusted men---and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorr’s underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal game---or die trying.
Scott Lynch, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, is a writer of fantasy novels.
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May 22, 2006 Life imitates art and art scams life in Lynch's debut, a picaresque fantasy that chronicles the career of Locke Lamora—orphan, thief and leader of the Gentlemen Bastards—from the time the Thiefmaker sells Locke to the faking Eyeless Priest up to Locke's latest con of the nobility of the land of Camorr. As in any good caper novel, the plot is littered with obvious and not-so-obvious obstacles, including the secret police of Camorr's legendary Spider and the mysterious assassinations of gang leaders by the newly arrived Gray King. Locke's resilience and wit give the book the tragicomic air of a traditional picaresque, rubbery ethics and all. The villain holds the best moral justification of any of the players. Lynch provides plenty of historical and cultural information reminiscent of new weirdists Steven Erikson and China Miéville, if not quite as outré. The only drawback is that the realistic fullness of the background tends to accentuate the unreality of the melodramatic foreground.
Young thief and former slave Locke Lamora has learned to cheat death in this strange fantasy world so unlike our own. But he realizes he's over his head when he finds himself trying to con three powerful men, each of whom would kill him without a second thought. With equal parts OLIVER TWIST and HARRY POTTER, and with an unfortunate tendency to pepper the novel with modern-day profanity, Scott Lynch has created a fascinating adventure of a young man doing what he can to survive. Michael Page switches characters with incredible ease, giving the hero distinctive voices. Page ratchets up the suspense in the story with his engaging dialogue. M.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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Young thief and former slave Locke Lamora has learned to cheat death in this strange fantasy world so unlike our own. But he realizes he's over his head when he finds himself trying to con three powerful men, each of whom would kill him without a second thought. With equal parts OLIVER TWIST and HARRY POTTER, and with an unfortunate tendency to pepper the novel with modern-day profanity, Scott Lynch has created a fascinating adventure of a young man doing what he can to survive. Michael Page switches characters with incredible ease, giving the hero distinctive voices. Page ratchets up the suspense in the story with his engaging dialogue. M.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
