The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, Book 2)

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when Eugenides, The Thief Of Eddis, Stole Hamiathes's Gift, The Queen Of Attolia Lost More Than A Mythical Relic. She Lost Face. Everyone Knew That Eudenides Had Outwitted And Escaped Her. To Restore Her Reputation And Reassert Her Power, The Queen Of Attolia Will Go To Any Length And Accept Any Help That Is Offered...she Will Risk Her Country To Execute The Perfect Revenge.

eugenides Can Steal Anything. And He Taunts The Queen Of Attolia, Moving Through Her Strongholds Seemingly At Will. So Attolia Waits, Secure In The Knowledge That The Thief Will Slip, That He Will Haunt Her Palace One Too Many Times.

when Eugenides Finds His Small Mountain Country At War With Attolia, He Must Steal A Man, He Must Steal A Queen, He Must Steal Peace. But His Greatest Triumph--and His Greatest Loss--comes In Capturing Something That The Queen Of Attolia Thought She Had Sacrificed Long Ago...

publishers Weekly

this Spellbinder Of A Sequel To The Newbery Honor-winning The Thief Is Every Bit As Devilishly Well Plotted And Grandly Conceived. As It Opens, Eugenides The Thief Has Fallen Into The Clutches Of The Queen Of Attolia, Who Still Seethes From His Besting Of Her (relayed In The Thief). Unwilling To Execute Him, Lest She Start A War With The Queen Of Eddis (eugenides's Cousin And Ruler), She Orders His Hand Cut Off. The Drama Is High, And The Action Grows Only More Engrossing. As Eugenides Tries To Reconcile Himself To The Amputation, War Breaks Out, Involving Attolia, Eddis And Sounis, Tiny Countries Modeled On Ancient Greece And Other Mediterranean Nations. For The Most Part, Turner Eschews Battle Scenes, Although She Executes These With Flair. Instead, She Emphasizes Strategy, With Brilliant, Ever-deceptive Eugenides A Match For Odysseus In His Wiliness And Daring, Perpetually Catching Readers By Surprise. When, Fairly Late In The Novel, Eugenides Decides That He Must Wed The Fearsome Queen Of Attolia In Order To Achieve A More Lasting Peace--and That He Loves Her--it Requires A Certain Leap Of Faith To Accept That His Terror Of Her Coexists With Desire. But Turner's Storytelling Is So Sure That Readers Will Want To Go Along With Her--and Discover Whatever It Is That Eugenides Will Do Next. Ages 10-up. (apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

When his small mountains country goes to war with the powerful nation of Attolia, Eugenides the thief is faced with his greatest challenge. He must steal a man, he must steal a queen, and he must steal peace.

But his greatest triumph-as well as his greatest loss-can only come if he succeeds in capturing something the Queen of Attolia may have sacrificed long ago.

Forsaken by the gods and left to his own devices, Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and wiles in an attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia.

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