The Price of Doing Business

In D. B. Jackson's novels Thieftaker and Thieves' Quarry , as well as in the story "A Spell of Vengeance," which was published on Tor.com, Kaille has had to deal with a variety of crimes and their perpetrators. The story that follows is one from Kaille's early days as a thieftaker in Boston. In it, he must face a formidable foe, one of a most unexpected sort, whose own powers, very different from his own, prove the equal of Ethan's. Ethan Kaille is a Thieftaker in Boston in the years leading up