A Conspiracy of Kings
core novel 2010 The Queen's Thief
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (29,322 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780061870934 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
A Conspiracy of Kings is the fourth novel in The Queen's Thief series. It centers on Sophos, heir to the throne of Sounis and a former student of the Magus, who was last seen as a minor character in earlier books. When his family's villa is ambushed, Sophos hides his mother and sisters but is betrayed by servants and sold into slavery far from home. After escaping and eventually returning to claim the throne of Sounis, he finds his country fighting a war with Attolia abroad while a civil war tears it apart from within, and he lacks the money and troops to resolve either crisis. Facing difficult choices with serious consequences, Sophos turns for help to his old friend Eugenides, now King of Attolia, and to the Magus, drawing him into the wider political struggle among the three peninsular kingdoms.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Queen's Thief
- Series: The Queen's Thief core; position 4 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Notes
- From the series record (The Queen's Thief): A YA political fantasy series following the thief Eugenides across the fictional Mediterranean-inspired countries of Sounis, Eddis, and Attolia; the author has stated the series ended with the sixth book.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Queen's Thief: position 4 of 6: previous The King of Attolia (2006) · next Thick as Thieves (2017)
Sources
- The Queen's Thief series bibliography (specialised series-tracking site)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Conspiracy_of_Kings
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