Midnight Rogue

Midnight Rogue is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Graeme Davis, illustrated by John Sibbick and originally published in 1987 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 29th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-032378-3). There are currently no announced plans to republish this book as part of the modern Wizard series.
Story
Midnight Rogue is set in Port Blacksand from City of Thieves, and casts the player as a somewhat unheroic character — an apprentice thief undergoing the test for Guild membership. The task is to steal a valuable gem, the "Eye of the Basilisk", from a merchant named Brass. The adventure involves burgling a variety of locations in the city to gain clues as its whereabouts: once found, the protections put in place to guard the gem turn out to be an even greater test.
Rules
The book allows the player a choice of various special skills taught by the Thieves' Guild: some of these may also be acquired later in the adventure by the collection of useful items. A further unusual mechanic is the restriction on the number of "backpack items" that can be carried, fitting in with the character of the player.
Later references
The story introduces various characters who appeared in later Fighting Fantasy books. The merchant Brass, the clairvoyant Madame Star and the Thieves' Guild leader Rannik all appear in the sample adventure from the Advanced Fighting Fantasy book ', in which a player character from Midnight Rogue may take part as a player character.
The book was also unique in that it featured anti-cheating countermeasures. On occasion the player would be given a number of options to resolve a problem, and if the player chose an option that they should not possibly be able to use - for example, choosing to use an item that they would not have an opportunity to acquire until much later in the story - the game would end at a paragraph admonishing the player for cheating.

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