Sacred Art Of Stealing (eBook)

Christopher Brookmyre (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
416 Seiten
Little, Brown Book Group (Verlag)
978-0-7481-3196-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The second book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist.Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask. He is an art-thief par excellence and she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught and he also has a secret agenda more valuable than anything he might steal. There are risks he can take without jeopardising his plans. He can afford to play cat-and-mouse with the female cop who's on his tail; it might even arguably be necessary. What he can't afford is to let her get too close: he could could end up in jail or, even more scary, he could end up in love ...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• ISBN-10: 0-7481-3196-5 / 0748131965
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7481-3196-9 / 9780748131969