Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo Summary
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In Bardugo's thrilling finale, Kaz Brekker's crew navigates a treacherous heist. Named among "50 Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century," this eight-narrator audiobook epic asks: can a band of broken thieves outsmart the world's deadliest powers and still survive each other?
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The Thieves Who Stole Our Hearts
In the fog-shrouded streets of Ketterdam, a criminal prodigy known as Kaz Brekker has just pulled off the impossible-breaking into the impenetrable Ice Court to kidnap a scientist who created a dangerous drug enhancing magical abilities. But when the merchant who hired them betrays the crew, they find themselves without their promised payment and with one of their own captured. Now, they're not just fighting for wealth-they're fighting for survival and revenge in a city where everything has a price. This Amsterdam-inspired metropolis operates on corruption and commerce, where gang leaders and wealthy merchants play a deadly game of chess using human lives as pawns. Against this backdrop, six damaged outcasts must orchestrate a scheme so audacious it would make even the most hardened criminals pause-all while navigating their own traumas, loyalties, and unexpected bonds.
The Mastermind's Gambit
Shadows and Scars
The Price of Loyalty in a World for Sale
Healing Broken Things
From Criminals to Family
Finding Justice in a Corrupt World
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