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Ethan Kaille isn't the likeliest hero. A former sailor with a troubled past, Ethan is a thieftaker, using conjuring skills to hunt down those who steal from the good citizens of Boston. And while chasing down miscreants in 1768 makes his life a perilous one, the simmering political tensions between loyalists like himself and rabble-rousing revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and others of his ilk are perhaps even more dangerous to his health. When one hundred sailors of King George III's Royal Navy are mysteriously killed on a ship in Boston Harbor, Ethan is thrust into dire peril. For he -- and not Boston's premier thieftaker, Sephira Pryce -- is asked to find the truth behind their deaths. City Sheriff Edmund Greenleaf suspects conjuring was used in the dastardly crime, and even Pryce knows that Ethan is better equipped to contend with matters of what most of Boston considers dark arts.
About the Author
D.B. Jackson is the pen name of award-winning author David B. Coe. Under both names, he is the author of more than twenty books, including epic fantasies, media work, and non-fiction. D.B. has also published nearly two dozen short stories. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His most recent novel is TIME'S CHILDREN, the first volume of The Islevale Cycle, a time travel/epic fantasy series. He has also written the Thieftaker Chronicles -- THIEFTAKER, THIEVES' QUARRY, A PLUNDER OF SOULS, and DEAD MAN'S REACH, as well as a Thieftaker short story collection, TALES OF THE THIEFTAKER.David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson was born in New York many, many years ago, and has since lived in New England, California, Australia, and Appalachia. He did his undergraduate work at Brown University, worked for a time as a political consultant, went to Stanford University, where he earned a Master's and Ph.D. in U.S. History, and finally returned to his first love: writing fiction.