This introductory scene, where Dox and Kell meet on the city wall, has just the right feel for me. I wanted this book—particularly at the beginning—to have the feel of a heist movie. Something like Ocean’s Eleven, Sneakers, or Mission: Impossible. I thought a couple of senior thieves getting together on the wall and talking about the team they are gathering would fit in just perfectly.
That was, by the way, one of the major inspirations for this book. I’ve mentioned that I stole the concepts for Allomancy and Vin’s character from other books I wrote. The plot came from a desire to write something that had the feel of a heist movie. I haven’t ever seen that done in a fantasy novel—a plot where a team of specialists get together and then try to pull off a very difficult task.
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