They all escape and meet at the hotel where Jesper's father is staying in. Pekka also attacks the hideout Kaz was using to hide Kuwei, where Jesper and Matthias were guarding him. However, all of them are attacked, and it is revealed that Pekka Rollins is in league with Van Eck. While Kaz and Wylan attempt to steal the seal they need from the Van Eck house, Nina and Inej infiltrate the sugar silos. Nina and Inej persuade Kaz to smuggle out the remaining Grisha in the city using one of Van Eck’s own ships. Doing so will raise the price of sugar, and Kaz had already bought shares in other sugar companies. The crew meets at their hideout, and Kaz reveals his plan to sabotage Van Eck’s sugar silos using a chemical weevil (cleverly nicknamed the Wyvil by Jesper). They all manage to get away after Nina shoots one of them point-blank in the eye, and Wylan sets another on fire. However, during the trade, three Shu soldiers with superhuman abilities attack Nina, Jesper, and other Grisha in the surrounding area. Kaz tells Jesper's father to give them three days to get the money and asks him to wait in a fancy hotel in the city.Īfterward, the crew's kidnapping is successful, and they trade Van Eck's wife for Inej. When Jesper goes to meet with his father, they are attacked but manage to escape. Meanwhile, Jesper’s father, Colm, arrives at the city to meet him, as the bank is pushing the deadline for the debt Jesper owes. After they find what they need, Kaz plans to kidnap Van Eck’s pregnant young wife, Alys, and trade her for Inej, who is being held captive and is nearly tortured. The book commences in a gambling parlor known as Club Cumulus where Jesper and Nina keep Jan Van Eck's lawyer, Cornelis Smeet, busy while Kaz and Wylan search his office for Jan Van Eck's property information. In the prologue, a Grisha man named Emil Retvenko is kidnapped by a winged Shu man. A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets―a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of magic in the Grisha world.

As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. Double-crossed and left crippled by the kidnapping of a valuable team member, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring, even they didn't think they'd survive.

'To Holly and Sara, who helped me build Noa, who made sure the walls stayed standing Jo, who kept me standing too.'

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