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Books by Megan Whalen Turner
THE QUEEN’S THIEF NOVELS
The Thief
The Queen of Attolia
The King of Attolia
A Conspiracy of Kings
Thick as Thieves
The World of the Queen’s Thief Collection
SHORT STORIES
Instead of Three Wishes
Credits
Cover art and design © 2017 by Joel Tippie
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used to advance the fictional narrative. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.
THICK AS THIEVES. Copyright © 2017 by Megan Whalen Turner. Map illustrations copyright © 2017 by Maxime Plasse. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Turner, Megan Whalen, author.
Title: Thick as thieves : a Queen’s thief novel / Megan Whalen Turner.
Description: New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] | Series: Queen’s thief ; 5 | Summary: “Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path” — Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016047028 | ISBN 9780062568243 (hardcover)
Subjects: | CYAC: Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Slavery—Fiction. | Secretaries—Fiction. | Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—Fiction. | Fantasy.
Classification: LCC PZ7.T85565 Tg 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047028
EPub Edition © April 2017 ISBN 9780062568274
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