The Lies of Locke Lamora
Edition: Bantam Mass Market Edition
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Published: June 26, 2007
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 722
ISBN-13: 9780553588941
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: American Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction; Fiction - Fantasy; Fantasy; Fantasy - Epic; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
First sentence: At the height of the long wet summer of the Seventy-seventh Year of Sendovani, the Thief-maker of Camorr paid a sudden and unannounced visit to the Eyeless Priest at the Temple of Perelandro, desperately hoping to sell him the Lamora boy.
Description: "HIGH-OCTANE FANTASY...A CREAT SWASHBUCKLING YARN OF A NOVEL." 
-Richard Morgan 

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....