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= Kaz Brekker =

Kaz Brekker is one of the main protagonist of the 2016 novel Six of Crows, written by Leigh Bardugo. He is a 17-year-old master thief and has a reputation for doing anything for the right price. He is the lieutenant of the Dregs, a prominent gang in Ketterdam, and the owner of The Crow Club.

He is also the leader of the Crows, a gang of six misfit characters that form to commit a heist. He is severely haphephobic due to an incident that traumatized him as a child, so he always wears black leather gloves. He uses a cane with a crow's head top for a limp in his right leg from an improperly healed break. He is played by Freddy Carter in the Netflix series.

Biography
Kaz Brekker was born as Kaz Reitveld. He was raised on a farm near Lij with his father and older brother Jordie Rietveld. Their father perished in a ploughing accident when Kaz was nine years old. Jordie planned for Kaz to attend school in Ketterdam, so he sold the farm and moved him there. After a few days in the city, Kaz and Jordie headed to the East Stave to see street magicians and ran into a young man named Filip who introduced them to Jakob Hertzoon. Hertzoon hired them as runners while Kaz continued to practise magic in his coffee shop. The boys got to know Hertzoon's daughter, Saskia and his wife.

The boys' investment in sugar stocks, urged by Hertzoon, produced a sizable return. A few days later, Hertzoon urged Jordie to use the whole profit from the sale of their father's land to make significant investments in the jurda crop. The following week went by comfortably for Kaz and Jordie, but when it came time to meet together again, they discovered the coffee shop to be deserted. They understood that Jakob Hertzoon and his "family" had conned them out of all of their money, leaving them with nothing. After being kicked out of their boarding home and made to sleep on the streets, the boys had a conflict with the stadwatch and the Razorgulls.

Jordie had a fever from the firepox when the Queen's Lady Plague swept through the city, and Kaz did too two days later. The brothers were sent to the Reaper's Barge at sea in a sickboat, presumed dead. Kaz got the firepox, but Jordie had died. Kaz, who was barely alive and unable to swim on his own, used his brother's body as a float as he made his way back to the harbour at Ketterdam and vowed to exact revenge on Hertzoon. Kaz was unable to bear skin-to-skin contact after the incident, and following a major panic attack, he bought a pair of gloves. He only took them off when alone.

In order to reinvent himself as a brutal fighter, Kaz took the last name Brekker. He worked at gambling establishments on East Stave and also learnt to steal. Due to his talent with cards, he was soon prohibited from participating in any gaming establishment on the Stave. The first time he had seen Jakob Hertzoon since the scam, he discovered that Hertzoon was actually Pekka Rollins, the commander of the Dime Lions. Kaz joined the Dregs the following day.

He started out as a grunt but swiftly worked his way up, becoming an official member at the age of twelve and a lieutenant a few years later, earning the nickname Dirtyhands for his razor-sharp cruelty. Kaz's sixth and last arrest occurred after the stadwatch rousted a casino when he was fourteen years old. Kaz met Imogen while working for the gang at the spring prize fights. He fell in love with her but was unable to move past his fear of touching her. The following year, Kaz organised a group to loot the bank that had assisted Hertzoon in defrauding him and Jordie, but he fractured his leg when jumping off the bank rooftop.

Thanks to Kaz, the Dregs' influence grew. With Kaz serving as the floor boss for more than two years, he assisted at the Crow Club, one of the Dregs' primary sources of income. Before Kaz claimed Fifth Harbor, the city had rendered it unusable and abandoned it. To finance the project, he mortgaged the Crow Club. The success of Fifth Harbor helped the Dregs establish themselves as a significant gang in Ketterdam. Many young people who were devoted to Kaz and believed he was the real leader of the Dregs rather than Per Haskell were enlisted into the gang.

Six of Crows
In order to negotiate between their gangs, Kaz meets the Black Tips at the Exchange. Big Bolliger, a Dregs member whom he reveals to be a double agent, is shot and allowed to bleed out slowly to death as a result of his betrayal. By threatening to slowly burn Geel's innocent lover Elise alive, Kaz successfully destroys the Black Tips; because of Kaz's image as Dirtyhands, Geel believes Kaz and backs off. As Kaz departs to roam the streets, Jan Van Eck, a respectable merchant, kidnaps Kaz after making an offer. According to the deal, Kaz will get thirty million kruge if he and his colleagues pull off an improbable heist: Take Bo Yul-Bayur out of the Ice Court of Fjerda. Unable to decline the offer of thirty million kruge, Kaz agrees and assembles a group. Wylan Van Eck, a demo and hostage, Matthias Helvar, a Fjerdan and former drüskelle, Inej Ghafa (his Wraith and spy), Nina Zenik, a Heartrender, Jesper Fahey (a sniper and devoted Dregs member who is also a Fabrikator).

The gang travels to the Ice Court after freeing Matthias from Hellgate jail, where he had previously been detained. The crew finally makes it to the Ice Court after a protracted and challenging journey that required extensive planning and involved several hazardous scenarios. Each member has a different responsibility, and finally the gang learns that Bo Yul-Bayur has passed away. They were going to kidnap him since he invented jurda parem, but instead they took his son, Kuwei Yul-Bo, only to find out that Wylan's father, Jan Van Eck, had planned the entire crime as a ruse. Van Eck first created the quest to aid in the growth of his business empire by promoting and producing more of the drug jurda parem.

Without Van Eck seeing, Kaz managed to foresee this situation and switched Wylan and Kuwei. After Van Eck admits that he had deceived Kaz, he then tells Van Eck this. Kaz is adamant that Van Eck must forfeit the thirty million kruge if he gets Kuwei. Van Eck, however, takes note of the way Kaz is staring at Inej and instead kidnaps Inej, telling Kaz that if he surrenders Kuwei, he will be able to get his Wraith back.

Crooked Kingdom
In order to distract attorney Cornelis Smeet at Club Cumulus so that Wylan and he can get into his home, Kaz pretends to be a poker dealer. The Crows talk about their strategy for robbing Van Eck of Inej and their money while Matthias rows them back to Black Veil Island.

Kaz and Matthias accompany Jesper and Wylan to the university to meet Colm Fahey because they believe they are being set up. In fact, Wylan, Colm, and Jesper are attacked, and everyone flees to Black Veil. Using some of his own experience being duped, Kaz helps Jesper create a lie to tell his father to explain his circumstances in Ketterdam. To Jesper's dismay, Kaz starts to formulate a plan to employ Colm in his strategy to discredit Van Eck, but he keeps his idea a secret from his team and books a room at the Geldrenner Hotel for Colm.

Kaz has the Crows set up a number of distractions after sending Van Eck a ransom note demanding a hostage exchange involving his pregnant wife Alys Van Eck and Inej in anticipation of a messy response from Van Eck. Van Eck informs the stadwatch that Kaz has also taken his son as they finish their conversation. Inej's chains are swiftly released by Kaz, and the two jump off Goedmedbridge before landing on a flower boat, donning disguises. He and Inej are forced to depart West Stave right away due to an explosion at the House of the White Rose. After investigating Van Eck's sugar silos, Kaz brings Inej to Black Veil.

Kaz outlines how he intends to defame Van Eck by destroying the sugar in his silos and profiting from the consequent increase in sugar prices on the stock market. Nina, assisted by Inej, coerces Kaz into incorporating the safe transport of Grisha from Ketterdam to Ravka into his plan. Inej travels with Kaz into the city at night. Kaz first catches up with his boss Per Haskell and assures him of their deeds and forthcoming funds. They then scale the Church of Barter to conduct an inspection of Van Eck's residence.

When Kaz's plot backfires, Jesper's father joins the group once more. They are being sought after by everyone in the city, and even Kaz's gang, the Dregs, have turned against them, making their situation appear hopeless. In order to raise money to support his team's future objectives, Kaz decides to hold an auction with Kuwei Yul-Bo as the "prize." Kaz infiltrates the Dregs' stronghold and executes an unannounced coup by himself, putting up a fight against at least twenty of Per Haskell's supporters.

He then uses Colm Fahey as "Johannus Rietveld," a ruse based on his and Jordie's previous names, to defraud the Merchant Council and Jan Van Eck of their money. The Ravkans can't afford the amount being offered for Kuwei, and the Council of Tides shows up to call the auction a fraud. It appears that everything is going wrong at the auction. Wylan Van Eck, who was apprehended by his own father immediately before the auction, likewise appears to have betrayed Kaz. To defame Jan Van Eck and steal the thirty million kruge that Van Eck owes, Kaz slowly unveils his plan, but he has been two or three steps ahead the entire time.

Later on, he admits that he stole thirty million kruge from the council and transferred it into the Dregs' accounts to be distributed among his group. Finally, he explains that Inej's parents have left a ship that he persuaded Sturmhond to dispatch in search of them. He also spends some of his share to buy Inej a ship.

Rule of Wolves
In an email to Kaz, Nikolai Lantsov solicits assistance in robbing Rentveer of its titanium in order to aid Ravka in his fight against Fjerda. As Zoya Nazyalensky and Nikolai make their way to the Crow Club, Kaz assumes the persona of an elderly man and follows them to listen in on their chat about him. Then Kaz makes himself known and leads the group down into the canals. He asks why he should assist Nikolai and Zoya and makes Rentveer seem impenetrable, but he pays attention when Nikolai offers safety for Inej.

The three of them travel to the Van Eck mansion where they run into Wylan Van Eck and Jesper Fahey. They are recruited by Kaz, who also explains his strategy. They all make their way to the bay, where the Suli imprison them. Kaz anticipates this, and they find out there is a tunnel leading to Rentveer. As Nikolai steals the titanium and replaces it with aluminium, Kaz opens the locks to the central yard and keeps watch. But as time runs out, Nikolai must let his monster loose in order to unhook the line and escape detection. After that, they leave after Nikolai gives Kaz his gift for the Wraith.

Following her coronation as ruler of Ravka, Zoya sends Kaz a note asking him to locate and take Sankt Feliks' heart so she can utilize it with the thorn wood.