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Nothing can slow them down, Leo mused. I wonder... What? Jason asked. Leo looked at the dwarfs. I'll make you a deal. Akmon's eyes lit up. Thirty percent? We'll leave you all the treasure, Leo said, except the stuff that belongs to us, and the astrolabe, and this book, which we'll take back to the dude in Venice. But he'll destroy us! Passolos wailed. We won't say where we got it, Leo promised. And we won't kill you. We'll let you go free. Uh, Leo...? Jason asked nervously. Akmon squealed in delight. I knew you were as smart at Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel! You, no thanks, Leo said. But in return for us sparing your lives, you have to do something for us. I'm going to send you somewhere to steal from some people, harass them, make life hard for them any way you can. You have to follow my directions exactly. You have to swear on the River Styx. We swear! Passalos said. Stealing from people is our specialty! I love harassment! Akmon agreed. Where are we going? Leo grinned. Ever heard of New York?

Rick Riordan

Nothing can slow them down, Leo mused. I wonder... What? Jason asked. Leo looked at the dwarfs. I'll make you a deal. Akmon's eyes lit up. Thirty percent? We'll leave you all the treasure, Leo said, except the stuff that belongs to us, and the astrolabe, and this book, which we'll take back to the dude in Venice. But he'll destroy us! Passolos wailed. We won't say where we got it, Leo promised. And we won't kill you. We'll let you go free. Uh, Leo...? Jason asked nervously. Akmon squealed in delight. I knew you were as smart at Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel! You, no thanks, Leo said. But in return for us sparing your lives, you have to do something for us. I'm going to send you somewhere to steal from some people, harass them, make life hard for them any way you can. You have to follow my directions exactly. You have to swear on the River Styx. We swear! Passalos said. Stealing from people is our specialty! I love harassment! Akmon agreed. Where are we going? Leo grinned. Ever heard of New York?

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About Rick Riordan

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. ( RIRE-dən; born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States. 20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films in which Riordan was not involved. Riordan currently serves as a co-creator and executive producer on the television series adaption of the book series that was released on Disney+ in 2023. Riordan's books have also spawned other related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.

Riordan's first full-length novel was Big Red Tequila, which became the first book in the Tres Navarre series. His big breakthrough was The Lightning Thief (2005), the first novel in the five-volume Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, which placed a group of modern-day adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since then, Riordan has written The Heroes of Olympus, a sequel to the Percy Jackson series; The Kane Chronicles, a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, again a trilogy of similar premise focusing on Norse mythology. Riordan also helped Scholastic Press develop The 39 Clues series and its spinoffs, and penned its first book, The Maze of Bones. In 2021, he published Daughter of the Deep. His third standalone novel, The Sun and the Star, co-written with author Mark Oshiro, was published on May 2, 2023.