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Red Seas Under Red Skies

by Scott Lynch · Gentleman Bastard #2

2007 · 578 pages · Random House

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💬 Mentioned in 10+ Reddit threads

📖 164k+ Goodreads ratings

📚 Book 2 of a completed 2-book series

About this book

When con artists Locke and Jean wash up in the exotic port city of Tal Verrar, they can't resist targeting the Sinspire—a legendary gambling palace so exclusive and heavily guarded that cheating means certain death. Armed with nothing but elaborate false identities and audacious schemes, they begin their daring ascent through nine floors of wealth and danger, inch by inch toward the vault at the top. But their perfectly orchestrated con spirals into chaos when someone from their past emerges with revenge in mind, and suddenly the stakes become far more personal than any heist. It's a thrilling battle of wits where one misstep could cost them everything—and maybe even their lives.

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