Faith Hunter, bestselling and award-winning author of the Jane Yellowrock Series A beautiful balance of magic and crime, history and fantasy that was fast-paced, compelling, and completely absorbing. Jackson has woven real history with imagination and created a character and a story to believe in and cheer for. With skillful, clever plotting and prose sharper than a spelled blade, D. Murphy, author of Urban Shaman and The Queen's Bastard An elegant, intricate tale of a multilayered, tortured conjurer and a world on the brink of war. I look forward to reading more of Ethan Kaille's adventures! -C.
Peopled by an array of entertaining characters from conjurers to revolutionaries, Thieftaker is a compelling debut novel by a writer who knows what he's doing. Jackson has masterfully woven history and fantasy to create a pre-Revolutionary Boston that should have been. But he can't stop now, for his magic has marked him, so he must fight the odds, even though he seems hopelessly overmatched, his doom seeming certain at the spectral hands of one he cannot even see. Already a man with a dark past, he can ill afford to fail, lest his livelihood be forfeit. Ethan is in way over his head, and he knows it. His adversary has already killed-and not for his own gain, but in the service of his powerful masters, people for whom others are mere pawns in a game of politics and power. solve crimes, politics is for others.until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family.Suddenly, he faces another conjurer of enormous power, someone unknown, who is part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power in the turbulent colony. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him. Boston, 1767: Revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty.
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