Skulduggery Books in Order

In a world where elves deny other races alcohol and magic, a human decides to build a whiskey business. He assembles a criminal crew and risks execution to sell his product beneath the rulers' noses.

With his whiskey operation finally making money, an ambitious criminal looks for ways to expand. New business fronts, stolen elven treasures and a double-crossed distributor promise greater profits, provided his enemies do not strike first.

A growing whiskey syndicate draws the attention of dwarven gangsters, assassins and the Elven Guard. Its human leader must eliminate increasingly powerful enemies while exploiting their tendency to underestimate him and his expanding criminal crew.

Assassins, dwarven miners and elven authorities threaten a thriving whiskey syndicate from every direction. Its crew must combine magic, violence and the help of an enslaved djinn to protect their business and pursue a wider revolution.

Success in the illicit whiskey trade brings scrutiny from the Thieves' Guild and the City Guard. The syndicate's leader must evade powerful elven officials while following his magical keys and keeping the enterprise that sustains his crew alive.

A criminal crew controls its city's whiskey trade and brothels, but powerful elven and dwarven enemies remain. Its leader plans to turn local dominance into an empire capable of bringing down the rulers who oppress them.

Months of expansion have made the whiskey syndicate wealthy enough to challenge its city's power brokers openly. Its leader prepares to eliminate the remaining opposition and turn a criminal takeover into the beginning of a wider rebellion.

The chance to distribute whiskey throughout the elven empire offers a criminal kingpin wealth beyond his city. But his ambitions now reach beyond money, turning commercial expansion into a campaign against the elves who rule the realm.

The elven empire is vulnerable, and a rebellion funded through the whiskey trade prepares to strike. Its human leader must guide his allies through the fighting ahead if they are to turn criminal influence into lasting freedom.

The Whiskey Revolution faces the surviving armies of the Elven Empire after striking at its ruling class. Outmatched in soldiers and magic, the rebels must rely on deception and maneuvering to turn their uprising into lasting freedom.