Thieftaker - Softcover

D.B. Jackson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765366061 ISBN 13: 9780765366061

Publisher: Tor Fantasy, 2013

Synopsis

Boston, 1765: The British Crown imposes onerous taxes on the thirteen colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. For Ethan Kaille, a conjurer who makes his living tracking down thieves, politics is for others...until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family. A man with a dark past, Ethan can ill afford to turn this case down. But taking the case means facing the most powerful members of Boston's high society and its seamy underbelly. And behind it all, another conjurer waits, who has already killed in the service of powerful masters. Ethan is in way over his head, hopelessly overmatched by the deadly spell craft of someone he cannot even see.

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Review:

D. B. Jackson has masterfully woven history and fantasy to create a pre-Revolutionary Boston that should have been. Peopled by an array of entertaining characters from conjurers to revolutionaries, Thieftaker is a compelling debut novel by a writer who knows what he's doing. I look forward to reading more of Ethan Kaille's adventures!--C. E. Murphy, author of Urban Shaman and The Queen's Bastard. An elegant, intricate tale of a multilayered, tortured conjurer and a world on the brink of war. With skillful, clever plotting and prose sharper than a spelled blade, D. B. Jackson has woven real history with imagination and created a character and a story to believe in and cheer for.--Faith Hunter, bestselling and award-winning author of the Jane Yellowrock Series. A beautiful balance of magic and crime, history and fantasy that was fast-paced, compelling, and completely absorbing. Historical fantasy that reads like an old-school crime novel, as if Raymond Chandler were channeling Jonathan Swift. I loved it!Kat Richardson, bestselling author of the Greywalker series --Various

About the Author:

D. B. JACKSON lives in Sewanee, Tennessee.In 1999, he received the William L. Crawford Memorial Award as the best new author in fantasy for The LonTobyn Chronicle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Fantasy
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0765366061
• ISBN 13: 9780765366061
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384