By Scott Lynch
In his hugely acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled event with a band of bold thieves led by way of con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings again his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, not anything in need of a miracle will pull it off.
After a brutal conflict with the underworld that just about destroyed him, Locke and his depended on sidekick, Jean, fled the island urban in their delivery and landed at the unique seashores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. yet even at this westernmost fringe of civilization, they can’t leisure for long—and are quickly again to what they do top: stealing from the not worthy wealthy and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.
This time, notwithstanding, they've got unique the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the main particular and seriously guarded playing condominium on the earth. Its 9 flooring allure the wealthiest clientele—and to upward push to the most sensible, one needs to provoke with sturdy credits, a laugh behavior…and excruciatingly impeccable play. For there's one cardinal rule, enforced by way of Requin, the house’s cold-blooded grasp: it's loss of life to cheat at any video game on the Sinspire.
overtly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an complex plan to lie, trick, and swindle their means up the 9 floors…straight to Requin’s teeming vault. lower than the cloak of fake identities, they meticulously make their climb—until they're in the direction of the spoils than ever.
yet anyone in Tal Verrar has exposed the duo’s mystery. somebody from their previous who has each goal of creating the impudent criminals pay for his or her sins. Now it is going to take each ounce of crafty to save lots of their mercenary souls. And even that will not be enough.…
PRAISE FOR SCOTT LYNCH
“A brilliant new voice within the myth genre.”—George R. R. Martin
Red Seas less than purple Skies
“Lynch hasn’t simply imagined a far away international, he’s created it, placed all of it down on paper—the smells, the sounds, the folk, the texture of where. the radical is a virtuoso functionality, and sf/fantasy enthusiasts will gobble it up.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Red Seas below purple Skies firmly proves that Scott Lynch isn’t a one-hit ask yourself. . . . It’ll basically be a question of time earlier than Scott Lynch is pointed out within the comparable breath as George R. R. Martin and Steven Erikson.”—Fantasy e-book Critic
“Grand, grandiose, grandiloquent . . . No critic is probably going to fault Lynch in his overflowing features of inventiveness, audacious draftsmanship, and sympathetic characterization.”—Locus
“The form of witty romp that reminds you precisely how a lot enjoyable heroic myth is meant to be.”—SFX
The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Right now, within the complete flush of a moment studying, i believe The Lies of Locke Lamora is maybe in my most sensible ten favourite books ever. probably my best 5. for those who haven’t learn it, you have to. when you have learn it, you'll want to most likely learn it again.”—Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling writer of The identify of the Wind
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Locke took an extended sip of the nice and cozy wine and allowed himself a couple of seconds of contemplation. He marveled on the method the flavor of apricots transmuted to the sharper style of a little tart apple in midswallow. That sip were worthy twenty volani, if his wisdom of the liquor industry was once nonetheless actual. He gave a really appreciative nod to Requin, who waved a hand nonchalantly. “It can't have escaped your awareness, grasp Kosta, that my vault is the main safe in Tal Verrar—the unmarried so much redundantly safe area within the whole urban, in reality, now not excepting the non-public chambers of the archon himself. ” Requin tugged on the skintight leather-based of his correct glove with the palms of his left hand. “Or that it truly is encased inside a constitution of pristine Elderglass, and obtainable basically via numerous layers of metallurgical and clockwork artifice which are, if i'll be authorised to stroke my very own breechclout, peerless. Or that part the Priori council regards it so hugely that they entrust a lot in their own fortunes to it. ” “Of course,” acknowledged Locke. “I congratulate you on a truly flattering purchasers. yet your vault doorways are guarded by means of gears, and gears are formed through males. What one guy locks one other will in the end free up. ” “I say back, very unlikely. ” “And I right you back. tricky. ‘Difficult’ and ‘impossible’ are cousins usually fallacious for each other, with little or no in universal. ” “You have extra likelihood of giving delivery to a reside hippopotamus,” stated Requin, “than the simplest thief alive has of constructing it previous the cordon drawn round my vault. yet this is often silly—we may well take a seat the following all evening contrasting cock-lengths. I say mine is 5 toes lengthy, you are saying yours is six, and shoots fireplace upon command. Let’s hurry again to major dialog. You admit that dishonest the mechanisms of my video games is out of the query. My vault is the main safe of all mechanisms; am I hence the flesh and blood you have been presuming to idiot? ” “It’s attainable this dialog represents me giving up that desire. ” “What does dishonest my visitors need to do with plotting access into my vault? ” “Originally,” stated Locke, “we gamed in basic terms to mix in and canopy our observance of your operations. Time handed and we made no development. The dishonest was once a lark to make the video games extra attention-grabbing. ” “My condominium bores you? ” “Jerome and that i are thieves. We’ve been sharping playing cards and lifting items east and west, the following to Camorr and again back, for years. Spinning carousels with the well-heeled is just fun for thus lengthy, and we weren’t getting a long way with our task, so we needed to remain amused one way or the other. ” “Job. definite, you acknowledged you have been employed to come back right here. tricky. ” “My accomplice and that i have been despatched right here because the aspect males of whatever very complex. an individual in the market desires your vault emptied. now not only penetrated, yet pillaged. Plucked and left at the back of like an empty honeycomb. ” “Someone? ” “Someone. I haven’t the faintest inspiration who; Jerome and that i are handled via fronts. All of our efforts to penetrate them were in useless.