Fantasy

Return of the Thief

by Megan Whalen Turner

Book 6 of the The Queen's Thief series

464 pages · First published 2020

The Mede Empire is preparing to swallow the smaller kingdoms around it, and Eugenides can no longer rely on clever thefts and private schemes to keep war at bay. Pheris, a physically disabled boy sent into the Attolian court as a political pawn, becomes an unexpected observer of the king whose apparent foolishness continues to conceal deeper plans. Armies, alliances, divine intervention, and old loyalties converge as the struggle expands beyond palace intrigue into open war. The final Queen’s Thief novel brings the series’ long political game toward its conclusion while preserving Turner’s habit of making the reader question what Eugenides is really doing until the pieces finally align.