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Cormac Sixsmith is a nobody. In the aftermath of war, he returns to the city of Dunstan as a sharpshooter with no skills but his aim, no living family, and an addiction to the magical fuel called selver said to cause Madness—granting the victim strange, short-lived abilities—and certain death. He is precisely the type of young veteran that the Syndicate, the city’s largest criminal organization, scoops up by the hundreds. Now, he dreams of rising in the ranks of the only group powerful enough to stick it to the hedonistic ruling class, and someday meeting the Syndicate’s legendary, enigmatic leader, known only as Osprey. 

But then a routine delivery turns into an ambush that nearly kills Cormac, and he is thrust into a bloody investigation of the gang’s own ranks to find the rat that betrayed them. In pursuit of the traitor, he begins to unearth long-buried secrets about the Syndicate and its origins, including the ugly truth that they may not be stealing from the rich after all. And though handsome, aloof Osprey takes a curious liking to him, with fingers pointing at every member of the gang’s top brass, how long until suspicion falls on Cormac, too?

As the noose tightens, Cormac suspects the true culprit is an infamous con artist whose origins are inextricably tied to the Syndicate’s own. But it’s not just revenge he wants… And unless Cormac can figure out who to trust and catch him first, he will burn the very kingdom down.

THE FACELESS PRINCE melds the grit and action of Peaky Blinders with the atmospheric fantasy storytelling of James Islington, M. L. Wang, and Marie Lu. Propulsive, shocking, and utterly unputdownable, this is a story about the corrupting force of power, the devastation of war on both body and mind, and inevitable, terrible revolution.