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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

The Gentleman Bastard, Book 1

About The Lies of Locke Lamora

For Game of Thrones readers who want the political complexity and the morally grey characters delivered through a heist narrative with exceptional wit. Lynch writes Locke Lamora as a con artist operating in a city-state of competing criminal guilds and aristocratic houses — the scheming is intricate, the characters are deeply considered, and the violence, when it comes, lands with the full weight of consequence.

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