An original piece in the style of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard sequence
“What face?”
The ink on the treaty was still wet when Locke Lamora decided to burn it.
“The one where you look like a priest calculating how much to charge for a miracle.” Thorn Of Emberlain Epub 580
Jean folded his arms. He’d grown a beard since the mess in Lashain—said it made him look less like a killer. It didn’t. “And our part?”
“They’re offering to sell the whole city,” Jean said slowly, “just to get you in a noose.”
“You’re doing the face,” said Jean Tannen. An original piece in the style of Scott
Not literally—not yet. But he held the parchment to the lantern light, watching the wax seals gleam like drops of blood, and felt the familiar itch behind his ribs. The one that said: this is a trap, and you’re going to walk into it smiling.
“No.” Locke’s grin was thin and sharp as a letter opener. “A better war.”
“A better peace?”
“We steal the receipt. Then we forge a better one.”
“They’re offering to let me trade my neck for ten thousand lives.” Locke folded the page into a tight square and tucked it inside his vest. “Which means, my dear Jean, that I have never been more dangerous in my life.” End of Fragment 580 If you are looking for the legitimate of The Thorn of Emberlain — please note the book has not yet been published as of 2026. Scott Lynch has provided updates over the years, but no official release date has been confirmed. Any EPUB claiming to be the full novel is either a placeholder, fan fiction, or a fraudulent file.
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“Five hundred and eighty pages,” Locke said, tapping the treaty. “That’s what this peace costs. Five hundred and eighty pages of lies, exceptions, and secret clauses. The nobles call it the Accord of Golden Threads. I call it a receipt for a murder yet to happen.”
Locke set the treaty down. They were in a rented attic above a tannery in Emberlain’s River District. Below, the city groaned—not with the polished rot of Camorr, but with something rawer. Emberlain was a wound that refused to scar. The civil war had clawed through it twice in five years, and now the crown’s peacekeepers marched past every hour, their boots striking cobblestones like hammer blows on a coffin.