Thieves' Gambit

Curiously, when plugged into the computer in 2310, the flash drive asked if I wanted to copy the hard drive. I tapped yes, but since this laptop didn t have a c-port, I didn t get to snoop on what I was copying. I spent the loading time digging through the file from the 2410 laptop some more on my phone.

I scrolled through links like Clients, Contacts, Numbers, and Master List. I found myself opening the phone number one, and up popped a spreadsheet with a whopping five thousand entries. Only a hundred lines down, I was finding names with addenda like (vice president) and (CEO) behind them. Using the search box, I typed in Quest. My name and cell number, along with Mom s and Auntie s, were there. Thankfully, there wasn t anything like (thief) behind ours. They were incriminatingly italicized, though, so maybe it was implied.

I tapped my chin for a few seconds before typing in another number. All of Count s texts about penalty games had made me forcibly memorize it. Lo and behold, there was a result. Aurélie Dubois.

So she did have a real name, a very French real name. Interesting.

I exported it all into my fam s black box. Surely Count was going to pop up and tell me to stop?

She didn t. I deleted the original file from my home screen undetected.

With the actual flash drive done loading, I returned the laptop to its safe and got ready to make the jump down to 2210. No lights came on when I dropped the marble again, so after tossing my heels, I bit down on my clutch for a third time and made the last swing onto the balcony.

Landing in a crouch, I flipped my braids back. My updo was a mess by now. Ten minutes left on the countdown. This was going to be tight.

I scooped up my shoes, about to slip them back on and hightail it out, but the curtain by the balcony door rustled, as if there were a breeze.

Only the curtains were behind the glass, and the door was shut. Someone was inside, waiting with the lights off. I had a feeling I knew who it

Kayvion Lewis is a youth services library technician. She’s been working with books since she was sixteen, hopping from libraries to bookstores and back again. She spends her free time breaking out of escape rooms, throwing knives, and occasionally jumping out of airplanes. While she often visits her family in The Bahamas, Kayvion lives in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Praise for Thieves' Gambit:
The 2024 Waterstones Best Book for Older Readers Prize
An Amazon Best Book of the Month October 2023
A September/October 2023 Kids Indie Next List Pick!
A 2024 Texas Tayshas Reading List Pick!
A 2024 Texas Lone Star Reading List Pick!
Black Caucus American Library Association Best of the Best 2023 Pick!
A Read with Reagan Book Club Pick!
A 2025 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award Selection

A propulsive, high-octane thriller that kept me guessing until the very end. Full of breathtaking heists, complex relationships, high-stakes tension, and characters I would follow anywhere, Thieves Gambit gripped me from the first page, and never let go. You won t want to stop reading. Alex Aster, #1 New York Times best selling author of Lightlark

This fast-paced heist thriller is incredibly assured with a blockbuster feel. The Guardian

Thieves' Gambit is a masterpiece! I love everything about this book from the twists and turns to the international settings and the characters. Kayvion Lewis has created a fast-paced and dramatic story that had me addicted from beginning to end. Natasha Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of Skin of the Sea

A fast-paced story about a cutthroat competition that brings together the world s best thieves to compete for the chance to earn a wish that could change the world, Thieves Gambit also features a fabulous, easy-to-root-for heroine at its center." Paste Magazine

Fans of Ocean's Eleven will enjoy Kayvion Lewis's exhilarating debut. PopSugar
 
A pulse-pounding thriller addictive. B&N Reads

The ultimate competition between thieves tests friendships and family ties the pacing is fast, and readers will experience the best kind of whiplash as the story moves from one heist to the next. The characters are also fully realized, and it s impossible