The series follows Beka from her entry onto the force as a trainee through a tumultuous period in the country's history. Known as "Dogs", they did their best to keep the peace, often walking a fine line between lawkeeper and outlaw. In an effort to make him give up his thieving ways, Eleni Cooper gives her young son George the journals of a famous ancestor: Rebekah Cooper, an officer in Corus' nascent police force. The fifth series - but chronologically, the first - in Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe. If I find them that's doing all this kidnapping and murdering, they'd best pray for mercy, because once I get my teeth in 'em, I will NEVER let them go."
Walking with her on her rocky are as motley a crew of friends and helpers as ever the Lower City has seen: the Lord Provost himself Rosto the Piper, sheer lightning with knives, and his associates, the swordswoman Aniki and the hedgewitch Kora the lady knight Sabine the ghosts of the dead who ride on pigeon-back the city’s dust whirlwinds, who collect conversations a devoted young scent hound, and the strange, purple-eyed black cat Pounce, whose hobby is grooming heroes."The Lower City is mine. Guiding her steps are Goodwin and Tunstall, two of the toughest Dogs in the capital, who will teach Beka the ropes-if she survives.
She starts right back where she came from, in the Lower City, because Beka has this funny idea that poor people deserve equal protection under the law. Beka’s brothers and sisters have honorable trades, but Beka?īeka wants to be a Provost’s Guard, or as they’re known in her time, a Provost’s Dog, the most despised, rough-and-tumble law enforcers in the realm. In return, he took her, her dying mother, and her two younger sisters and two younger brothers into his house, to raise and educate them well above the poverty-stricken slum where he found them. When she was eight years old, Beka Cooper did the Lord Provost of Tortall a very big favor. Set 200 years before The Song of the Lioness.
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