Clouds of midges danced around Ethan’s head, scattering when he waved a hand at them, only to swarm again as soon as he turned his attention back to his quarry.Įthan stepped onto the wharf and peered into murky corners, expecting Folter to fly at him at any moment.

Hulking wooden warehouses, shrouded in a faint mist, cast deep, elongated shadows across the wharves. The western horizon still glowed with the last golden light of day, but the sky over Boston Harbor and the South End shoreline had darkened to a deep indigo. But he had chased Daniel Folter this far-from the Town Dock to Purchase Street, over cobblestone and dirt, past storefronts and homes and pastures empty save for crows and grazing cows-and he wasn’t about to let the pup escape him now. His leg ached and he was breathing hard, gasping greedily at the warm, heavy air hanging over Boston on this August eve. He had sweated through his linen shirt, and nearly through his waistcoat, as well. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īoston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, August 26, 1765Įthan Kaille eased his knife from the leather sheath on his belt as he approached Griffin’s Wharf, the words of a warding spell on his lips. But he can't stop now, for his magic has marked him, so he must fight the odds, even though he seems hopelessly overmatched, his doom seeming certain at the spectral hands of one he cannot even see.

Already a man with a dark past, he can ill afford to fail, lest his livelihood be forfeit. Ethan is in way over his head, and he knows it. His adversary has already killed-and not for his own gain, but in the service of his powerful masters, people for whom others are mere pawns in a game of politics and power.

Suddenly, he faces another conjurer of enormous power, someone unknown, who is part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power in the turbulent colony. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others.until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family.

Jackson's Thieftaker, revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty.

Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson