num_pages: 337
description: Deep within the palace of the Mede emperor in an alcove off the main room of his masters apartments Kamet minds his masters business and his own. Carefully keeping the accounts and his own counsel Kamet has accumulated a few possessions a little money stored in the households cashbox and a significant amount of personal power. As a slave his fate is tied to his masters. If Nahusereshs fortunes improve so will Kamets and Nahuseresh has been working diligently to promote his fortunes since the debacle in Attolia.A soldier in the shadows offers escape but Kamet wont sacrifice his ambition for a meager and unreliable freedom; not until a whispered warning of poison and murder destroys all of his carefully laid plans. When Kamet flees for his life he leaves behind everythinghis past his identity his meticulously crafted defensesand finds himself woefully unprepared for the journey that lies ahead.Pursued across rivers wastelands salt plains snowcapped mountains and storm-tossed seas Kamet is dead set on regaining control of his future and protecting himself at any cost. Friendshipsnew and long-forgottenbeckon lethal enemies circle secrets accumulate and the fragile hopes of the little kingdoms of Attolia Eddis and Sounis hang in the balance.
language: English
title: Thick as Thieves
publisher: Greenwillow Books