Newsletter 103 PDF - large print format - expanded ... - Uncle Hugo's

perhaps 30,000 years ago and now filled with
humans), this is the story of Locke Lamora. An
orphan who began his life of crime at the age of
six, he eventually comes to lead the best team
of con men in the city, the Gentlemen Bastards.
Part of the fun consists of the clever plots to
remove wealth from the decadent nobles, but a
large part of the fun are the clever lines that
the Gentlemen Bastards fling at each other.
A year later, Red Seas Under Red Skies ($7.99)
came out. To avoid revealing too much about the
ending of Lies, let me just say that two of the
Gentlemen Bastards, Locke and Jean, move on to
another city to practice their cons on a fresh
set of victims. While Red Seas was fun, it was
not as outstanding as Lies, largely because
Locke and Jean could not fling as many clever
lines at each other as the whole team had been
able to fling in the first book.
The next year (2008), the third book was
supposed to come out, but was postponed. And
postponed again. And postponed again. Finally,
The Republic of Thieves ($28.00) will be
released in October, and it is very good. Since
they were about six years old, Locke had a crush
on Sabetha, the red-haired little girl who grew
up to be the only Gentle(Lady) Bastard. At the
beginning of the book, it’s been over 5 years
since he last saw her, but he’s still obsessed
with her. Much of The Republic of Thieves
consists of scenes that happened in the past,
showing earlier cons run by the Gentlemen
Bastards that the reader has not previously