
The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud
2003

Megan Whalen Turner · 1996
224 pages
Gen has been locked in the king's prison of Sounis for boasting that he can steal anything. Freed by the king's magus, he is dragged along on a hunt for an ancient artifact that could settle the fate of three nations, and he schemes, complains and remembers more than he admits.