“Fresh, original, extremely entertaining and brilliantly executed.” George Martin The adventures of Locke Lamora's "noble channel" continue. Now fate has brought him to the distant seas and forced him to walk under a black sail. What is not in the most successful way coincides with the culmination of a long-term scam - to rob a legendary gambling house, where whole fortunes are put at stake every night; a gambling house whose owner is afraid of cruel bandits and those in power. But the freelance magicians of the distant Carten have their own plans...In the new translation the continuation of one of the brightest fantasy debuts of recent years.