by Scott Lynch
Red Seas Under Red Skies
The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book Two
Fleeing the fallout of the bloody affair with the Gray King, Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen go to ground far to the west, in the grand island city of Tal Verrar. There they plot an elaborate casino heist to restore their lost fortune. Not all old scores are settled, however, and they soon find themselves enmeshed in a scheme to reshape the politics of Tal Verrar and set the entire Sea of Brass on a course for war. Their journey will take them out across the waves, to the lawless haven of Port Prodigal, where they must keep their plans rolling even while fighting for their lives as reluctant members of a pirate crew.
The Republic of Thieves
The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book Three
Locke Lamora has been poisoned, and his only chance to live is to accept employment in the service of a group he would gladly murder with his bare hands—the Magi of Karthain. Posing as hired consultants, Locke and Jean must deploy every dirty trick in their arsenal in an effort to rig the seemingly genteel elections in the city-state of Karthain. Their situation becomes immeasurably more complicated when they discover that their opposition is Locke’s old flame, Sabetha Belacoros, a con artist trained to their own standards and intimately familiar with their every weakness. A New York Times and USA Today Best-Seller.