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Loading... The Sacred Art of Stealing (2002)by Christopher Brookmyre
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Gave up. Amateur hour exposition. ( ) An amazing amount of fun. Local jokes, local scenery (I live in Glasgow), characters you actually care about, several points where I laughed out loud and still more misleading back-story, twists, turns, muddied trails, double-crosses and red herrings than in many books that view themselves as "serious" thrillers. Pure dead brilliant, as they say. no reviews | add a review
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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 ... No library descriptions found. |
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