The Thief's Gamble by Juliet E Mckenna

The Thief's Gamble by Juliet E Mckenna

In Einarinn, the secret of magic is known only by an elite few. They live in deliberate isolation, under the watchful eye of the Archmage. But nothing last for ever. Livak is a part-time thief and a full-time gambler, long accustomed to living by her wits and narrowly avoiding serious trouble. When she attempts to sell a stolen antique to a passing merchant, she finds herself pulled into a new and dangerous world of political intrigue in which the stakes are higher than anyone involved can imagine. For the antique she has acquired dates from a particular period in the history of Einarrin about which little is known, but much has been speculated. And when the truth begins to emerge, Livak decides to take the greatest gamble of her life.

One of the problems those not already besotted fans have with genre heroic fantasy is the real vagueness of its settingsOne answer to this is to slot it somehow into real time--another, more interesting one is to provide the imagined world with a past of its own. McKenna does this less through the provision of endless chronologies and king-lists than through her character s' sense of what has been lost--her magicians, scholars and thieves are all aware of how little they know of the past and how much there is to find out. All the chasing around, sword fighting and hair-breadth escapes of the plot relate closely to the quest for knowledge, for understanding of the strange dreams that come to scholars who own ancient artefacts. Livak starts off supplementing her income from gambling with a little judicious burglary of the sort of thing she knows scholars are buying; she finds herself first blackmailed, and then more willingly recruited, into a cause which comes to be her own. And who are the mysterious blonde thugs who dog our heroes at every turn? McKenna's debut has areas of clumsiness, but real charm and excitement to overcome them. AMAZON.CO.UK A wonderful debut J.V. Jones

Juliet E McKenna has worked as a bookseller, but is now a full-time mother and writer. THE THIEF'S GAMBLE is her first novel, and she is currently working on her second, set in the same world.

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ISBN 13	9781857236880
ISBN 10	1857236882
Titel	The Thief's Gamble
Autor	Juliet E Mckenna
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-01-07
Seitenanzahl	448
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