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Feb. 18th, 2008
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Feb. 18th, 2008 06:05 pmThe island city of Camorr has two ruling classes. One ruling class, of course, is the nicely shiny and legal aristocracy. The other is the legitimized underworld of thieves and killers, ruled by the iron fist of Capa Barsavi. Among his underlings is Locke Lamora, a "priest" who leads a small gang of thieves known as the Gentleman Bastards.
There’s Locke Lamora himself, of course, a former street urchin who was such a good thief as a child that the Thiefmaker of Camorr, who trained all the thieves in the city, once got legal permission to kill him. Then there’s Jean Tannen, a man good with numbers, but best with his fist and hatchets. Next up are the wisetalking twins, Galo and Caldo. They’re deliberately indistinguishable. Finally, there’s Bug, Locke’s apprentice.
What Capa Barsavi knows is that they’re a loyal gang who bring in good money and don’t try to trick him by turning in the exact same amount of money every month, and that Locke swore himself into the service of Nazca, Barsavi’s daughter, as a child. (Purely platonic. Locke seems to have angsted himself sterile after a love affair gone wrong with Sabetha, the sixth member of the Gentleman Bastards, who is mentioned a lot in this book, but never seen.) What he doesn’t know is that their mentor, Father Chains, trained them to be the greatest con artists Camorr has ever seen, and that they have several fortunes stashed in the basement, and no idea what to do with the money…it’s just fun to get it.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Feb. 18th, 2008 06:05 pmThe island city of Camorr has two ruling classes. One ruling class, of course, is the nicely shiny and legal aristocracy. The other is the legitimized underworld of thieves and killers, ruled by the iron fist of Capa Barsavi. Among his underlings is Locke Lamora, a "priest" who leads a small gang of thieves known as the Gentleman Bastards.
There’s Locke Lamora himself, of course, a former street urchin who was such a good thief as a child that the Thiefmaker of Camorr, who trained all the thieves in the city, once got legal permission to kill him. Then there’s Jean Tannen, a man good with numbers, but best with his fist and hatchets. Next up are the wisetalking twins, Galo and Caldo. They’re deliberately indistinguishable. Finally, there’s Bug, Locke’s apprentice.
What Capa Barsavi knows is that they’re a loyal gang who bring in good money and don’t try to trick him by turning in the exact same amount of money every month, and that Locke swore himself into the service of Nazca, Barsavi’s daughter, as a child. (Purely platonic. Locke seems to have angsted himself sterile after a love affair gone wrong with Sabetha, the sixth member of the Gentleman Bastards, who is mentioned a lot in this book, but never seen.) What he doesn’t know is that their mentor, Father Chains, trained them to be the greatest con artists Camorr has ever seen, and that they have several fortunes stashed in the basement, and no idea what to do with the money…it’s just fun to get it.