This infatuation never went away, and he was heartbroken when he thoughts that she had drowned while on a job. Malignant Plot Tumor: The Gray King in The Lies of Locke Lamora goes from background element to Big Bad.

Markos killing Gervain in the interlude chapter "The Tale of the Old Handball Players" - thirty-five years after the handball game that ruined their friendship.Scott Lynch's novel oozes charm, ability, guile, flair, courage, cheek, humour, brevity and bravery in equal measure. Because the owner of the tavern paid protection money to Capa Barsavi, which should have prevented any such mischief from the city's thieves, and because he was responsible for nearly having an entire city district burned to the ground, despite the profit from the score, the Thiefmaker punishes Locke harshly for his actions, making him drink Camorri ginger oil. Secretly, the Bastards have actually been using elaborate schemes to swindle various nobles out of large sums, and have amassed a considerable fortune; they purchase the trinkets they pass on to Barsavi as tribute, in accordance with their small-time reputation. It's even an Enforced Trope on the seas, where sailors outright state that it's unlucky to be without at least one woman on the crew.

The Gray King murders Barsavi's daughter Nazca and delivers her body to the Capa in a barrel of horse urine; Locke is forced to continue with the plan, even though he knows that now Barsavi will never negotiate.Limited to 750 signed and numbered copies and exclusive to the Gollancz Emporium, this is the ultimate way to enter the underworld of Camorr. Locke Lamora makes for an engaging rogue, and Camorr a fascinating and gorgeously realized setting, a city to rival Lankhmar, Amber, and Viriconium.

The bondsmagi's assumed names are also self-chosen and usually provide a clue to their bearer's mindset, origins or interests. The chapter where Locke masquerades as a Midnighter (secret cop) who tells the Salvaras about his Spanish Prisoner gambit is told this way. After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke 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. At the end of Red Seas Under Red Skies, the paintings that Jean and Locke steal turn out to be replicas that Requin had put out for just such an occasion. In other stories, figures like Requin and Capa Barsavi would be monstrous Big Bad types who'd thoroughly crossed the Moral Event Horizon.In the third book it's revealed that Locke told Jean what he thought was his true name, despite never telling his true love Sabetha. Dunking the Bomb: The gas-releasing sculptures full of Wraithstone, alchemical fuses, and fire-oil planted by Capa Raza in the Duke's tower to Gentle everyone inside are rendered impotent this way before they can go off. The Don Salvara Game was an elaborate plan to rob Don Salvara and Doña Salvara of their fortune through a plan to ship Austershalin Brandy to them through illicit galleons.