Scott Lynch

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.In this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his tightly knit band of tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part "Robin Hood," one part Ocean's Eleven, and entirely enthralling....An orphan's life is harsh--and often short--in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld's most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly.Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game--or die trying....

Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 31-Jul-2007.After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke Lamora and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long---and they are soon back doing what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele - and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior...and excruciatingly impeccable play. For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the house's cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.Brazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floors...straight to Requin's teeming vault. Under the cloak of false identities, they meticulously make their climb - until they are closer to the spoils than ever.But someone in Tal Verrar has uncovered the duo's secret. Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Now it will take every ounce of cunning to save their mercenary souls. And even that may not be enough.

With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.Magi political elections are imminent, and the factions are in need of a pawn. If Locke agrees to play the role, sorcery will be used to purge the venom from his body - though the process will be so excruciating he may well wish for death. Locke is opposed, but two factors cause his will to crumble: Jean's imploring - and the Bondsmage's mention of a woman from Locke's past: Sabetha. She is the love of his life, his equal in skill and wit, and now, his greatest rival. Locke was smitten with Sabetha from his first glimpse of her as a young fellow orphan and thief-in-training. But after a tumultuous courtship, Sabetha broke away. Now they will reunite in yet another clash of wills. For faced with his one and only match in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha - or to woo her. It is a decision on which both their lives may depend.

Locke Lamora, thief, con-man, pirate, political deceiver is back, and now he must become a soldier.A new chapter for Locke and Jean and finally the war that has been brewing in the Kingdom of the Marrows flares up and threatens to capture all in its flames. And all the while Locke must try to deal with the disturbing rumours about his past revealed in The Republic of Thieves. Fighting a war when you don't know the truth of right and wrong is one thing. Fighting a war when you don't know the truth of yourself is quite another. Particularly when you've never been that good with a sword anyway...

Hailed by George R. R. Martin as “a fresh, original, and engrossing tale by a bright new voice in the fantasy genre,” The Lies of Locke Lamora introduced one of the most compelling protagonists in years and established Scott Lynch as a household name. Years later, the Gentleman Bastard series continues to shine with Lynch’s signature blend of swashbuckling adventure, sparkling wit, and seemingly impossible heists. It’s all here in this rollicking eBook bundle, which collects the first three volumes of Lynch’s one-of-a-kind series: THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORARED SEAS UNDER RED SKIESTHE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.

With the long-awaited release of THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES upon us, now is the perfect time to go back and see where it all began, in the first two books of the GENTLEMEN BASTARD series.THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA:They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight. They say he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. They say he's part man, part myth, and mostly street-corner rumor. And they are wrong on every count.Only averagely tall, slender, and god-awful with a sword, Locke Lamora is the fabled Thorn, and the greatest weapons at his disposal are his wit and cunning. He steals from the rich - they're the only ones worth stealing from - but the poor can go steal for themselves. 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.RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES:Escaping from the attentions of the Bondsmagi Locke Lamora, the estwhile Thorn of Camorr, and Jean Tannen have fled their home city. Taking ship they arrive in the city state of Tal Varrar where they are soon planning their most spectacular heist yet; they will take the luxurious gaming house, The Sinspire, for all of its countless riches.No-one has ever taken even a single coin from the Sinspire that wasn't won on the tables or in the other games of chance on offer there. But if anyone can, it is Locke and Jean...

Life is always complicated for students of magic at the High University of Hazar, but the fifth-year exam is a particular Each student must return one library book. Of course, they must return it to the Living Library, a haunted collection of ten million magical tomes, a collection where the rules of time, space, weather, and reality itself are subject to sudden change. Escorted by armored battle-librarians, a group of four students must face mysteries and monsters in a fight to get their books back on the shelves in this brisk, darkly whimsical sword and sorcery tale. Originally published in 2010, the Author's Enhanced Edition of "In the Stacks" is newly revised and expanded, featuring new dialogue, new scenes, and a new introduction from the author, internationally best-selling fantasist Scott Lynch, creator of Locke Lamora and the Gentleman Bastard Sequence.

Welcome to Theradane, a city of deep magic, ruled by a council of eternally feuding wizards!A city of opportunity, where bold dreamers brave the fallout from the wizard wars to make their living.A city of sanctuary, where wanted criminals from all over the world can pay a fortune to secure a safe place for their retirement.Amarelle Parathis, the Duchess Unseen, one of the greatest thieves in history, was surviving such a retirement until she accidentally offended the powerful sorceress Ivovandas. Now Amarelle and her crew of brilliant misfits have a task: secretly steal an object of power from a rival wizard every bit as dangerous as Ivovandas. The object? A city street, hundreds of yards long, upon which thousands of people tread day and night. The stakes? Their freedom, very possibly their lives. The deadline? A year and a day.Amarelle and her friends will need every minute of it...Originally published in the 2013 anthology ROGUES, this acclaimed and darkly whimsical sword-and-sorcery novella from internationally best-selling fantasist Scott Lynch is now available as a digital single! As an added bonus, enjoy a lengthy preview of "The Cobbler's Boy," a short novel from Elizabeth Bear and Katherine Addison!

Meet the Honorable Company of Red Hats. Misfits, eccentrics, pranksters, nonconformists... and professional killers without peer. Mercenaries for hire in a war-torn world, the Red Hats always seem to end up fighting for sides that are more righteous than strong, for clients who are more desperate than wealthy, in circumstances that are more exciting than survivable.In this excerpt from the chronicles of the Red Hats, as told by their self-appointed historian, the sorcerer called Watchdog, the company faces an armed and armored war machine that threatens to break an army of thousands and crush a free republic beneath its steel tread.Originally published in 2013, "The Effigy Engine" is a black powder fantasy of magic, musketry, and mercenary banter.

In this tale from Locke's teenage years, our nervous, hormonal, romantically-confused hero spends a few months working as a bar-back in one of Camorr's most brutal Right People taverns. This is one of Father Chains' endless series of training and personal enrichment schemes; as per usual, it's full of fuckery, and as per usual, Locke is expected to work it all out himself. His only real ally of the moment is the aging mercenary Mazoc Szaba, a man addicted to risking his own life in a gambling spectacle involving poisoned wine.As Locke's troubles boil over, so do Mazoc Szaba's debts, and when you publicly flaunt your obligations to the one and only Capa Barsavi, Barsavi reaches out to publicly remind you of them...This short story is available in two parts in the October 2024 and January 2025 editions of Grimdark Magazine.

Book V of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence Forthcoming.The burden of authority and the illusion of respectability.A dangerous bid to reach old allies.A shadow war against even older enemies.

In 1943, Violet DeVere and her fellow WASPs did their part to help destroy an axis of brutal dictators that threatened the future of the planet Earth.In 1950, Violet DeVere will be kidnapped across a hundred million miles of space, to an impossible empire on the ancient planet Mars, where she will rise alone to defy an invincible tyranny that dooms fifty million souls...

Scott Lynch takes us along on an insanely dangerous quest with a down-on-his-luck thief who has nothing left to lose, and who finds that by finding everything; he gains nothing except for a rousing story to tell on a cold winter's night.

The January/February 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rati Mehrotra, and AnaMaria Curtis. Essays by Nicholas Whyte, Ai Jiang, A.T. Greenblatt, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Kaliee Pedersen, Mari Ness, Shankar Narayan, and E. N. Díaz, interviews with Scott Lynch and Rati Mehotra by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Maxine Vee, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Betsy Aoki, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

천재 사기꾼의 우아한 계략이 잔혹한 음모를 다룬 스캇 린치 장편소설 『우아한 계략 : 하』. 세계 14개국에 출간된 ‘젠틀맨 바스타드 시리즈’의 첫 번째 이야기로 치밀한 두뇌싸움과 범죄, 신비로운 판타지를 조화롭게 풀어냈다. 아름다운 물의 도시 카모르. 천재 사기꾼 록 라모라가 이끄는 사기단 젠틀맨 바스타드는 범죄자와 귀족 간의 비밀 협정을 깨고 귀족들의 돈을 몰래 갈취하며 아슬아슬한 게임을 벌인다. 그러나 귀족 돈 살바라의 재산 반절을 훔치기 위해 작업하던 중 수수께끼의 존재 그레이 킹이 카모르 뒷골목 세계를 위협하기 시작하고, 록 일당은 도시 전체를 건 잔혹한 계획에 휩쓸리는데……. 워너 브라더스 영화화 예정작이다.

Les temps anciens ne sont pas morts. Les sbires des rois-sorciers s'opposent toujours à l'ordre androfrancien.Nebios, l'adolescent qui a assisté à la destruction de Windwir, sillonne les déserts du monde à la recherche de la Grande Bibliothèque. Tandis que le fantôme de son père lui apparaît pour le mettre en garde, il est pourchassé par d'étranges guerriers.Jin Li Tam, la reine des Neuf Maisons Sylvestres, affronte quant à elle des ennemis au sein de ses fidèles. Ces derniers affirment que son fils est l'Enfant de la Promesse annoncé par leurs Évangiles. Ils sont persuadés que l'avènement de l'Impératrice Écarlate est imminent.Tapis dans leurs abris, les derniers survivants de l'ordre androfrancien se préparent à répondre à la mélodie qui s'échappe d'un croissant argenté dans le Désert Bouillonnant...

천재 사기꾼의 우아한 계략이 잔혹한 음모를 다룬 스캇 린치 장편소설 『우아한 계략 : 상』. 세계 14개국에 출간된 ‘젠틀맨 바스타드 시리즈’의 첫 번째 이야기로 치밀한 두뇌싸움과 범죄, 신비로운 판타지를 조화롭게 풀어냈다. 아름다운 물의 도시 카모르. 천재 사기꾼 록 라모라가 이끄는 사기단 젠틀맨 바스타드는 범죄자와 귀족 간의 비밀 협정을 깨고 귀족들의 돈을 몰래 갈취하며 아슬아슬한 게임을 벌인다. 그러나 귀족 돈 살바라의 재산 반절을 훔치기 위해 작업하던 중 수수께끼의 존재 그레이 킹이 카모르 뒷골목 세계를 위협하기 시작하고, 록 일당은 도시 전체를 건 잔혹한 계획에 휩쓸리는데……. 워너 브라더스 영화화 예정작이다.

‘젠틀맨 바스타드 시리즈’ 두 번째 이야기『록 라모라의 위험한 도박』하권. 운하의 도시 카모르에서 항구와 해적의 도시 탈 베라르로 무대를 옮긴 록 라모라 일행은, 더욱 복잡하고 커다란 판에 치명적인 핸디캡을 달고 뛰어들게 된다. 천재 사기꾼 록 라모라가 이끄는 사기단 젠틀맨 바스타드는 최고의 도박장 신스파이어를 약탈하기 위해 항구도시 탈 베라르로 향한다. 그러나 그들에게 앙심을 품은 잔혹한 마법사집단 본즈메이지의 마수가 뻗쳐 오고, 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 탈 베라르 집정관 스트라고스가 앞을 가로막는데…….

‘젠틀맨 바스타드 시리즈’ 두 번째 이야기『록 라모라의 위험한 도박』상권. 운하의 도시 카모르에서 항구와 해적의 도시 탈 베라르로 무대를 옮긴 록 라모라 일행은, 더욱 복잡하고 커다란 판에 치명적인 핸디캡을 달고 뛰어들게 된다. 천재 사기꾼 록 라모라가 이끄는 사기단 젠틀맨 바스타드는 최고의 도박장 신스파이어를 약탈하기 위해 항구도시 탈 베라르로 향한다. 그러나 그들에게 앙심을 품은 잔혹한 마법사집단 본즈메이지의 마수가 뻗쳐 오고, 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 탈 베라르 집정관 스트라고스가 앞을 가로막는데…….

Locke Lamora, l'ancienne Ronce de Camorr, et son comparse Jean Tannen ont fui leur cité natale. Débarqués à Tal Verrar, ils vont y exécuter leur forfait le plus spectaculaire : s'attaquer à L'Aiguille du péché, une maison de jeu réservée à l'élite, et voler son incommensurable trésor. Un seul moyen pour cela : gagner les divers jeux proposés aux clients. Une formalité pour Locke et Jean.Mais, une fois encore, les deux compères se retrouvent embringués dans des aventures imprévues... et devront se frotter à la flotte pirate du célèbre capitaine Zamira Drakasha. Une véritable sinécure pour des voleurs qui ne distinguent pas bâbord de tribord. Pendant ce temps, les Mages Esclaves fomentent leur revanche contre celui qui les a humiliés avant de disparaître : un certain Locke Lamora...

The Cave of Mystery blends fun and smarts with quirky clues and a dash of history young readers will adore.A chilling growl echoes from the forbidden caves sending a group of young explorers on a thrilling hunt for answers. When Hunter's new gadget picks up a bone-chilling growl from the depths, he and his friends are thrust into a mystery that will test their courage. Are they facing a wild beast, a cruel hoax, or a dark secret hidden within the cave's depths?The twins Hunter and Harper with their best friend David become detectives, what they find hints at a past waiting to be brought to light. Revealing unexpected clues as they confront their suspects.As they delve deeper they find that the cave hides more than growls. An ancient discovery that someone’s desperate to keep buried. The trio uncover a hidden truth that could change their community forever. But with this revelation comes a tough choice. Should they share what they’ve found, even if it risks stirring up trouble? It’s a test of bravery and honesty, and the decision might hold the key to the cave’s biggest secret.Will they crack the case before the cave’s secrets are lost forever?Perfect for Young Sleuths! A blend of humor, heart, and a dash of history making a middle-grade must-read. Relatable characters and a captivating plot make it irresistible for kids craving adventure. Young explorers will love the ride and the lessons they’ll carry along! A wild adventure where every twist reveals a new truth, and every step proves the past is worth fighting for. Along the way, they’ll discover that digging deep can bridge yesterday and today, and sometimes, the loudest roars are the quietest lies. This story is packed with adventure, suspense, and unexpected twists, perfect for readers who love a thrilling mystery with heart. What’s growling in the cave? Hunter, Harper, and David are about to find out! When a spooky bear roar echoes through their town’s woods. With every clue, they unravel a web of surprises.

«Свежо, оригинально, крайне занимательно — и великолепно исполнено» (Джордж Мартин). Однажды Воровской наставник явился к отцу Цеппи, Безглазому священнику храма Переландро, чтобы сбыть с рук несносного мальчишку Локка Ламору. Ведь Ламора, хоть и прирожденный вор, был воистину несносен, и для его исключительных талантов город-государство Каморр — прорезанное десятками каналов, раскинувшееся на множестве островов под сенью исполинских башен из стекла Древних — могло оказаться тесным. С течением лет Локку и его Благородным Канальям сходит с рук многое, вплоть до нарушения Тайного уговора, регулирующего всю жизнь Путных людей Каморра, но вот в закулисье преступного сообщества появляется Серый король — безжалостный, невидимый и неуязвимый убийца, — внося свои коррективы в очередную гениальную аферу Локка…

Приключения Локка Ламоры продолжаются. Чуть не погибнув под занавес того, что должно было стать величайшей аферой Благородных Каналий, Локк и Жан отправились на север в лихорадочном поиске противоядия от той отравы, которой опоил их архонт Тал-Веррара. И когда подошли к концу как остатки денег, так и надежды на успех, помощь явилась с самой неожиданной стороны — от могущественных вольнонаемных магов Картена. Архидонна Терпение обещает излечить Локка — но при условии, что Благородные Канальи выступят в нехарактерной для них роли политтехнологов. Причем «играть» на картенских выборах им придется против Сабеты — бывшей их боевой подруги и главной любви всей жизни Локка, пропавшей на пять лет…