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The Bastards and the Knives

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Swords Against Death

Fritz Leiber · 251 pages

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The Death of Dulgath

Michael J. Sullivan

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The Spirit Eater

Rachel Aaron · 422 pages

The Legend of Eli Monpress 1 The Spirit Thief (2010) 2 The Spirit Rebellion (2010) 3 The Spirit Eater (2010) 4 The Spirit War (2011) 5 Spirit's End (2012) Spirit's Oath (2012) [SF] The Legend of Eli Monpress (2012) [O/1,2,3] The Revenge of Eli Monpress (2012)[O/4,5] With the pressure on after his success in Gaol, Eli Monpress, professional thief and degenerate, decides it's time to

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The Black Lung Captain

Chris Wooding

Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.

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The Redemption of Althalus

David Eddings · 704 pages

It would be sheer folly to try to conceal the true nature of Althalus, for his flaws are the stuff of legend. He is, as all men know, a thief, a liar, an occasional murderer, an outrageous braggart, and a man devoid of even the slightest hint of honor.Yet of all the men in the world, it is Althalus, unrepentant rogue and scoundrel, who will become the champion of humanity in its desperate struggle

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The Prophecy Con

Patrick Weekes · 512 pages

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him

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Clockwork Boys

T. Kingfisher · 230 pages

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Foundryside

Robert Jackson Bennett · 501 pages

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The Copper Promise

Jen Williams · 491 pages

Nadat Lord Frith is verslagen en zijn familie is vermoord, gaat hij op zoek naar de sleutel waarmee hij zijn citadel weer kan opeisen, maar hij blijkt niet de enige.

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Skin Game

Jim Butcher · 585 pages

Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.

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Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

Maurice Leblanc · 198 pages

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A Matter of Magic

Patricia C. Wrede · 448 pages

When a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into a traveling magician's wagon, Kim doesn't hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. A hard life and lean times have schooled her in one lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for. Until he su

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The Silverblood Promise

James Logan · 528 pages

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Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 493 pages

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privil

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A Tempest of Tea

Hafsah Faizal · 338 pages

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Heist Society

Ally Carter · 287 pages

When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to Louvre... to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her uncle travelled to Austria... to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she conned her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. But now her dad's life is on the line, and Kat must go back to the world she tried s

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Hope and Red

Jon Skovron

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A Discourse in Steel

Paul S. Kemp · 352 pages

"Once the most daring - some would say reckless - grave robbers around, Egil and Nix are now retired, having opened their own tavern with a side business as a brothel. The warrior-priest and the dashing rogue are done with adventuring. But is adventuring done with them? When two beautiful sisters run afoul of the notorious Thieves' Guild, the semi-respectable entrepreneurs are called upon to defen

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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

E.W. Hornung · 292 pages

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The Blacktongue Thief

Christopher Buehlman · 416 pages

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Luck in the Shadows

Lynn Flewelling · 496 pages

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Little Thieves

Margaret Owen · 512 pages

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The Book of Taltos

Steven Brust · 389 pages

An omnibus featuring assassin Vlad Talot and his dragon companion contains "Taltos," in which Vlad pursues a thieving Dragaeran employee to the lair of Sethra Lavode, and "Phoenix," in which he must repay a debt to the Demon-Goddess with his professionalservices as an assassin.

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