# The Thief-Taker’s Apprentice

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- Book: [The Thief-Taker’s Apprentice](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-deas/the-thief-takers-apprentice) ([The Thief-Taker’s Apprentice.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-deas/the-thief-takers-apprentice.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Deas](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-deas)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7509-450-5
- Published: 2010-08-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Berren has lived in the city all his life. He has made his way as a thief, paying a little of what he earns to the Fagin like master of their band. But there is a twist to this tale of a thief. One day Berren goes to watch an execution of three thieves. He watches as the thief-taker takes his reward and decides to try and steal the prize. He fails. The young thief is taken. But the thief-taker spots something in Berren. And the boy reminds him of someone as well. Berren becomes his apprentice. And is introduced to a world of shadows, deceit and corruption behind the streets he thought he knew. Full of richly observed life in a teeming fantasy city, a hectic progression of fights, flights and fancies and charting the fall of a boy into the dark world of political plotting and murder this marks the beginning of a new fantasy series for all lovers of fantasy - from fans of Kristin Cashore to Brent Weeks.