Lynch brings so much emotion and depth to his characters and the relationships they build that it’s difficult not to become attached to this pair of morally grey conmen and the allies they make along the way. I am very fond of stories featuring found family and genuine friendship. Locke and Jean are constantly faced with the challenges of maintaining multiple faces and plots, their lives hanging in the balance. Pleasantly – or perhaps unpleasantly, at least for our protagonists – this is not the case. You would expect a novel focused on conmen to go the way of Ocean’s Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen setbacks would be quickly surmounted by clever tricks and cunning, and ultimately the conmen would succeed against the powerful clandestine ruler of the Sinspire. Similar to the first book, Lynch uses a dual narrative structure of past and present events to weave Locke and Jean’s journey to the latter stages of their ‘game’. But someone in Tal Verrar knows their secrets and intends to make the criminal duo pay for their past sins all of their combined wits and cunning may not be enough to save them. On the exotic shores of Tal Verrar, Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen have set their sights on the Sinspire, the most exclusive – not to mention guarded – gambling house in the world.
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