The Lies of Locke Lamora: Collector's Tenth Anniversary Edition (Gentleman Bastard)

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By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It gave me the blessing of feeling like a kid again, snuggled up with a book, wondering how the hell 10pm became 4am. The book is issued in pictorial boards without jacket and is Very Fine with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends.

The wit and charm of his prose carries the story at a brisk pace, and although the novel isn’t quite a comedy, Lamora’s waggish repartee is incredibly endearing. The capricious, colourful underworld of the ancient city of Camorr is the only home they've ever known. Description: Paw Prints 2008 library Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Slightly built and barely competent with a sword, Locke Lamora is, much to his annoyance, the fabled Thorn. Author of the internationally best-selling Gentleman Bastard sequence, Scott has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, the Campbell Award, and the Compton Crook Award.

Trained, from childhood, in the various skills necessary for their trade, they enjoy their work - and hold more stolen gold than they know what to do with. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Description: Gollancz 2006 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good jacket Size: 6x1x9; Signed, inscribed, and dated by Scott Lynch on title page.What Locke cons, wheedles and tricks into his possession is strictly for him and his band of fellow con-artists and thieves: the Gentleman Bastards. Locke and Jean barely escaped with their lives from what should have been the greatest heist of their career, in the port city of Tal Verrar.

I find the flashbacks add a rich layer to the storytelling, providing just enough background information to introduce the new scenes. UPDATE: Scott finished a draft of the next Gentleman Bastard novel, THE THORN OF EMBERLAIN, at the end of May 2019.I knew the deaths were coming but I thought these Gentleman Bastards could at least make it for a few more books. Las mentiras de Locke Lamora / The Lies of Locke Lamora: Libro primero de las cronicas de los caballeros bastardos / Book One of the Chronicles of the . 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. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist.