Meet, Mingle, Read: Thieftaker

The Director’s “Meet, Mingle, Read” series continues! Join us in welcoming author D. B. Jackson (aka fantasy writer David B. Coe)who will discuss his new novel, Thieftaker (Tor Books).

Boston, 1767: In 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. 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.

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. 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. Ethan is in way over his head, and he knows it. Already a man with a dark past, he can ill afford to fail, lest his livelihood be forfeit. 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.

D. B. Jackson is the award-winning author of a dozen fantasy novels, a half-dozen short stories, and the occasional media tie-in. His books have been translated into more than ten languages. He has a Masters and Ph.D. in U.S. history, which have come in handy in this novel, and in the next novel about Ethan Kaille, which will be published in 2013. He and his family live in the mountains of Appalachia.

All are invited to attend this free program. Books will be available for purchase from The Harvard Coop Bookstore. Light refreshments will be served.