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In the beginning of ''The Republic of Thieves'', the third book in the ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]]'', Locke Lamora lies near death from the poison administered to him in [[Red Seas Under Red Skies|the previous book]]. The chance for a cure comes in the form of the bondsmage, Patience, who wants to hire Locke and his trusty friend Jean to fix an ordinary human election in Karthain, the city where the bondsmagi live. For that she is willing to remove the poison from Locke's body as well as give a
To complicate the matters, the opposing faction of bondsmagi has hired Sabetha, Locke's former partner in crime and [[Single-Target Sexuality|enduring true love]] who is Locke's equal in [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]. A truly dirty election season follows in which both of the two political parties in Karthain engaging in horrendously corrupt and entertaining tactics under the criminal guidance of Locke and Sabetha, all to win the rulership of a city that, unknown to the ordinary residents, is in truth ruled from shadows by the mind-controlling bondsmagi themselves. When the end comes, the results surprise almost everyone.
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* [[Blood on the Debate Floor]]: In a climactic moment of political unrespectability, the Konseil members get into fisticuffs with each other and the police.
* [[Conspicuous Consumption]]: Locke and Sabetha's election budgets are so huge that they can easily afford themselves luxuries. Sabetha was even ordered to spend every single crown, and so she appears at the election party in an extremely fancy gown she bought with the money left over. The gown is an election expense because the embroidery will make the gown hopelessly outdated the very next day.
* [[Corrupt Politician]]: Locke and Sabetha do their best to spread corruption around, but Lovaris in particular counts. {{spoiler|His price for quitting his own party immediately after the election results were announced was 25.000 crowns worth of precious gems.}}
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: {{spoiler|Patience gets one.}}
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: As far as Patience is concerned, the reigniting romance between Locke and Sabetha skirts dangerously close to this trope.
* [[Drugged Lipstick]]: Worn by Sabetha. It works great.
* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: Locke and Sabetha bribe a good portion of Karthain's civil servants as well as other suitably placed people to cause trouble to the opposing party.
* [[Feed the Mole]]: How Locke reacts when he learns that someone within his inner circle has been passing on secrets to Sabetha.
* [[Fictional Political Party]]: Kartain has the Deep Roots Party and the Black Iris Party. They have no known policy differences even on a rhetorical level, and after the election the bondsmagi always quietly mind-control the successfully elected politicians anyway.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Sabetha.
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