Nicked based on an actual heist in 1086 for the body of Saint Nicholas as a plague swept through the town of Bari. Nicephorous is a monk who dreams of Saint Nicholas, and quite reluctantly agrees to go steal Saint Nicholas' bones with Tyun, a famed thief, and his companion, the dog-faced man, Reprobus. What follows is a high stakes and high seas heist for the ages. 

This book was a fun read and was very cinematic - I could see how this could all play out in a movie. The depth of the main characters and their backstory was fun, as well as the lush descriptions of everything from ships to crypts. As a side note, never have I been more grateful for the dictionary feature on my kindle as there were several very specific words that I'd never seen before! I also very much enjoyed the Saint Nicholas moralism stories that are peppered in throughout the book and then seeing how it connects with the main story.

Thank you to NetGalley and Pantheon for the advanced copy.