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 hotel in the city.Īfterward, the crew's kidnapping is successful, and they trade Van Eck's wife for Inej.

When Jesper and Wylan go to meet Colm, they are attacked but manage to escape. Meanwhile, Jesper’s father, Colm, arrives at the city, as a bank Jesper owes demands he pays his debts. Kaz then plans to kidnap Van Eck’s pregnant young wife, Alys, and trade her for Inej, who is being held captive. The book begins in a gambling parlor named Club Cumulus, where Jesper and Nina keep Jan Van Eck's lawyer, Cornelis Smeet, busy while Kaz and Wylan search his office for Van Eck's property documents. In the prologue, a Grisha named Emil Retvenko is kidnapped by a winged Shu man. Leigh Bardugo has discussed the possibility of writing a third book in this series, but has not confirmed it. The Crows reappear in Rule of Wolves (2021), part of the King of Scars duology where Nina Zenik is a major point-of-view character. Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are set in the Grishaverse. The plot is told from the third-person viewpoints of eight characters. Set in a world loosely inspired by 19th-century Europe, it takes place days after the events of the duology's first book, Six of Crows. 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 the Grisha world.Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĬrooked Kingdom is a fantasy novel by American author Leigh Bardugo, published by Henry Holt and Co. 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 badly weakened, 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. When you can’t beat the odds, change the game. Now in paperback with a brand-new exclusive piece of art, an interview with Leigh Bardugo and a sneak peek of her next book. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.Ĭrooked Kingdom is the #1 New York Times- bestselling Book Two in the Six of Crows Duology. Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows Series #2) (Hardcover)

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