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Shadow Thieves book cover for review: an adult and a child stand silhouetted on a rooftop, facing away from the viewer, looking over a cramped city saturated blue. The man is holding a lantern with a yellow light. In the distance, St Peter's Cathedral is silhouetted against lightning and a rising sun. The title 'Shadow Thieves' is in gold, the 'o' shaped like a lock, and the 'i' like a key.
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Shadow Thieves | Book Review

Kim

By Peter Burns (pub. Farshore, June 2025)

It looked like a scrap of paper, tucked behind one of the roof tiles beside him. He pulled it free. It was a small rectangle of thick cream card, on which was printed in fine copperplate type:

Wanted: the clever, the cunning and the fearless.
Must be willing to risk death daily.
Fortunes available for the most daring and capable.
No one over 18.
Orphans preferred.

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