Den of Thieves. David Chandler

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      For F.L., M.M., and R.E.H., the Grand Masters

      Contents

      Map

      Prologue

      Nearly one hundred thousand people lived in the Free City…

      Part I

      A Thief’s Ransom

      Chapter One

      There were evil little things skulking in the shadows, their…

      Chapter Two

      Inside the ruined building three old men dressed in rags…

      Chapter Three

      The darkness inside the box was a solid thing, as…

      Chapter Four

      Well. He knew what to do with locks.

      Chapter Five

      Beyond the locked door was a snug little office, heated…

      Chapter Six

      Neither of them spoke for a while, as the meaning…

      Chapter Seven

      He drank the whole bottle and got rather drunk and…

      Chapter Eight

      The accused was brought into the square on a hurdle,…

      Chapter Nine

      Malden pushed through the crowd, which tried to push back.

      Chapter Ten

      Approximately three hundred yards to the northwest, Market Square had…

      Chapter Eleven

      For a while Malden’s world was only a terrible ringing,…

      Chapter Twelve

      The sorcerer Aelbron Hazoth lived in an imposing four story…

      Chapter Thirteen

      The next day Malden spent in preparation.

      Chapter Fourteen

      As they hauled away from the Smoke and up the…

      Chapter Fifteen

      Malden had learned to climb almost from the time he…

      Chapter Sixteen

      Croy hated subterfuge, but sometimes the direct approach was just…

      Chapter Seventeen

      Malden listened to the clamor beyond the wall for only…

      Chapter Eighteen

      Malden found himself in a small bedroom that looked like…

      Chapter Nineteen

      Malden’s feet kicked wildly at nothing as his body dropped…

      Chapter Twenty

      “You’re—You’re mad,” Malden had said two days before, when Cythera…

      Chapter Twenty-One

      The crown—technically a coronet—was not a work of great art…

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Bile rushed up Malden’s throat and his head swam. The…

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      A great crashing noise stopped Croy in his tracks. “That…

      Chapter Twenty-Four

      It was all Malden could do to hold on. His…

      Chapter Twenty-Five

      Croy’s blood thrummed with excitement, as if his veins were…

      Chapter Twenty-Six

      “Curse you, leave off,” Malden whimpered. His strength was nearly…

      Chapter Twenty-Seven

      Warm gusts of air chased up the shaft and made…

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Croy dashed into the shadows, keeping his head down as…

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      As a child growing up in a brothel, Malden had…

      Chapter Thirty

      Malden rushed back through the arches, thinking Kemper must have…

      Part II

      An Unquiet Crown

      Interlude

      Chapter Thirty-One

      Croy and Cythera spent much of the night in furtive…

      Chapter Thirty-Two

      It took Malden the better Part of the day to…

      Chapter Thirty-Three

      Finding Bikker was easily enough done, for a man with…

      Chapter Thirty-Four

      When the Seven Day Fire finally burned itself out, leaving…

      Chapter Thirty-Five

      The boy’s face was freckled and his chin weak, when…

      Chapter Thirty-Six

      Knightly interruptions notwithstanding, Malden’s preparations were finished long before midnight.

      Chapter Thirty-Seven

      An hour later Malden was fast, and finally, asleep.

      Chapter Thirty-Eight

      The rough hands that dragged Malden inside the door threw…

      Chapter Thirty-Nine

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