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- These objects come to symbolize Kaz’s unique ability to transform his personal weakness into enormous power. True to character, Kaz leads the heist not because he believes in the mission but because the payout will help him get revenge on Pekka Rollins.
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Kaz walks off, knowing he can never trust Jesper again. Specht will come for them in a few hours. He remembers letting Nina disguise his crow-and-cup tattoo before the heist, but he didn’t let her cover the R on his arm—and unwittingly, he’d grown back into Kaz Rietveld during the heist.
Six of Crows follows the adventures of six teenage criminals hired to undertake a dangerous heist, while searching for love and redemption along the way. The leader of the group is Kaz Brekker, the cunning, ruthless leader of the Dregs, one of many street gangs in the port city of Ketterdam.
The Merchant Council was never aware of the heist. Van Eck had hired Kaz and Pekka Rollins to abduct Bo Yul-Bayur because he wanted to manufacture jurda parem himself and take over the world. Van Eck threatens to destroy Kaz’s ship.
The novel finally reveals why Kaz is focused on Rollins and not Hertzoon in the present: they’re the same person. In the flashback, Kaz discovers that Hertzoon/Rollins continues to swindle people because he dehumanizes them—Kaz doesn’t even exist to Rollins.
As far as Kaz is concerned, Pekka Rollins is ever-present and is always going to show up at the worst moment to ruin his life. But Rollins’s role here also suggests that this heist is going to force Kaz to engage again with his past and the trauma that Rollins caused him and Jordie years ago.
As the river carries him, Kaz thinks of Inej, and of breaking his leg falling during a heist on the bank Pekka Rollins used to scam him. The baleen gives out, and he hears Jordie tell him that he’s cheated death too many times.
