guarding him. They all escape and meet at the hotel where Colm is staying. Nina tells the group about her strange and eerie new ability to control dead bodies; she, Wylan, and Kuwei guess that it might be a result of her surviving withdrawal from jurda parem. They also learn Van Eck had deputized all the gangs in the Barrel, leaving them with few allies and no means of escape. Kaz puts together another plan and declares an auction for the indenture of Kuwei. During the auction the Fjerdans, Ravkans, Shu, and Zemeni bid for Kuwei. Kaz disguises the Grisha from the embassy as the Council of Tides. They claim that the auction is biased because Van Eck funded the Shu delegation. The Merchant Council believes that Van Eck had swindled them. The money was, in fact, channeled to the Crows by scamming the Merchant Council. Van Eck is arrested and his reputation destroyed. They manage to fake Kuwei's death and smuggle him out of the city with the Ravkans, where he will try to find an antidote to jurda parem. During the job, Matthias is shot by a young drüskelle and later dies. Kaz bluffs Pekka into believing that he had his son buried alive. Pekka then leaves the city in search of his son. With Van Eck gone, Wylan inherits the properties of his family. Jesper lives with Wylan and helps him handle the business but agrees that he will train with a Fabrikator to develop his power as Grisha. In the final chapters, Kaz finds Inej's parents with the help of Sturmhond and brings them to Ketterdam. He is threatened by the real Council of Tides. Inej threatens Pekka out of his business in her first move against the people active in Ketterdam's slave trade. Characters Kaz Brekker, a criminal prodigy and lock pick with a reputation for doing anything for the right price. He is also known as Dirtyhands and Bastard of the Barrell. He is described as always wearing black leather gloves and carrying a cane with a crow's head on it. He is a leader of the Dregs. Inej Ghafa, a Suli acrobat who has a talent for sneaking around. She was kidnapped as a child and forced to work in a brothel known as the "Menagerie" until Kaz bought her indenture. She is also known as the Wraith. Wylan van Eck, a merchant's