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AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS: A SHADOW THIEF CAPERA brand new gamebook from Black Dog Gamebooks, written and illustrated by David LowrieAfter the epic tale of the original Shadow Thief trilogy - comes something a bit different.In this first Shadow Thief Caper: an Unkindness of Ravens, and Shadow is back doing what he should be doing- stealing. Set a year after the epic events of Heroes, then Shadow is once again working as a thief, and trying to rebuild the Jackdaws, the thieves' guild. But what happens if he steals the wrong thing from the wrong person?Expect sneaking , climbing , creeping , puzzles , fights in the dark , taverns , beer, bar fights , mysterious women, dark magic, poisoning , familiars , assassinations , rooftop fights, voodoo dolls, and horrific deaths.Or, as Shadow calls it, Tuesday NightYou can play this without playing any of the previous Shadow books, but you will probably enjoy it more if you have played Jailbreak, Hunted and Heroes. For those who have played before, your Shadow character can be carried over into An Unkindness of Ravens, and you will have two new skills for Shadow to choose.Featuring 25 full page illustrations, plus fillers. And 24 bonus full page cartoons of “Tails from the One Eyed Rat” PLUS, a teaser for the next Shadow Thief Caper: A Parliament of Rooks.An exert from the start:The suns are just dropping down over the horizon of the Scarlet Ocean and you know that in a few minutes it will be almost totally dark in the port area in the large, sprawling city of Laeveni. The city is the largest in the empire of the One True God, and contains the holy seat of power. Behind you, as dusk falls, the bells chime from the tall elegant spires of Amaldi City. Amaldi is the central Holy City that resides as an almost separate state inside its own walls in the centre of Laeveni, high on the hillsides. This separate inner city is surrounded by marble walls 50 feet high, and just as thick, and nigh on impregnable. And it is guarded by 5000 warrior monks and priest knights.The bells chime to call the many priests, monks and acolytes to service in the many hundreds of churches inside the Amaldi walls. The light of the twin suns reflects from the tall marble walls, making the inner city almost seem to gleam. But you are miles away from such grandeur. You hope you will never see inside the walls of the Amaldi City again, as last time you barely escaped alive.However, you ignore the bells and focus. This is still your favourite time of the day – when the whole night is in front of you. You carefully suppress the excitement you feel for tonight’s job, as excitement leads to haste. You are again perched on top of the grain warehouse at the edge of the docks, watching your current prey. You have been watching for the last three nights, knowing that the merchant finishes work at sundown, and then meets fellow merchants in a wine shop for a couple of hours before returning home.The wharf is getting increasingly lively and rowdy, with sailors in port drinking alongside soldiers, brigands, dwarves and many other creatures in the many dives along the docks. Greasy smoke from the numerous fireplaces and torches lighting the roads drifts up to your vantage point, and mixes with the other smells of a seaport: salt, rotting fish, rubbish, excrement and the stench of unwashed bodies. Some things never change, you think to yourself wryly, but also appreciating that the city remains unchanged. The docks on a winters evening are not for those with weak stomachs – and that’s before you even try the swill most of the taverns pass off as beer.

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