Stopping assassins may keep Vin?s Mistborn skills sharp, but it?s the least of her problems. Luthadel, the largest city of the former empire, doesn?t run itself, and Vin and the other members of Kelsier?s crew, who lead the revolution, must learn a whole new set of practical and political skills to help. It certainly won?t get easier with three armies ? one of them composed of ferocious giants ? now vying to conquer the city, and no sign of the Lord Ruler?s hidden cache of atium, the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal.