Narrow noses investigate the crime lords organizations own people and stop problems before they become big ones and this is what Drothe is.
They gain information by infiltrating crime lords organizations and become secret agents. A Long nose keep their heads down and information close to the chest. A wide nose you work on the street and sell the information you learn to those whom would pay handsomely for it. Each thieves is called a nose and there are 3 different types of noses: Wide, Long, and Narrow. Douglas Hulick has also written a very creative may to people in this world call thieves. There is a lot of backstabbing in this novel with plenty of surprises along the way. I always got the feeling of something creepy around every corner or new treasures to discover in that building and who was going to betray to crime bosses next.
What excited me most about reading Among Thieves was the world building Douglas Hulick has incorporated into a novel just over 400 pages in length.
Drothe eventually discovers an ancient relic that can bring down the emperors and the criminal underworld, but he will have to survive first as everybody is now out in Idrecca hunting for him. On his many missions, he discovers that the people leaning on his crime bosses organization are involved in a much bigger mystery pertaining to the Gray Prince. Drothe has been a member of the kin for years and working for a crime lord he finds and deals with trouble inside the organization, while stealing relics on the side. I shouldn’t say that Drothe has no skills, he does possesses an ancient skill where he can see in the dark but he doesn’t consider this skill to be anything special. Drothe gets by not with any magical ability of extreme smarts but with the knowledge of the criminals he is encountering, help from his friend Degan, and a lot of luck. Drothe has a wary eye for running the streets and surviving if things turn bad, which in his case is more often then not. We follow a single POV perspective named Drothe. Idrecca has a normal economy and structure but the criminal underworld is the real holder of power in this city and the powers that be will try every trick in the book to remove the beating heart from this criminal organization. Ildrecca is a dangerous city to the average person especially if you are travelling in places you shouldn’t be. This is Douglas Hulicks debut novel and I would definitely say that this is a book you will want to get your hands on one way or another. I then proceeded to read the back cover and I knew I was in for a treat with thieves, crime lords, political alliances, and powerful magic relics. Honor is a noble virtue, but among thieves honor can get you killed. Every so often I come across a story that just grips me from the moment I set my eyes of the cover.
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