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The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre.
Back cover.
Let us prey . . .

The press tend to talk about bank robberies as being daring,

ingenious and audacious. They don't describe many as Dadaist,

even the ones who know what 'Dadaist' means. But how else

does one explain choreographed dancing gunmen in Buchanan

Street, or the surreal methods they use to stay one

step ahead of the cops?

Angelique de Xavia is no art critic, but she is a connoisseur
of crooks, and she's sure that the heist she got caught up in

wasn't the work of the usual sawn-offsandblack-tights

practitioners indigenous to the parish. She knows she's dealing

with a unique species of thief, and it's her job to hunt him to

extinction - though the fact that it's not just his m.o. that's

cute might prove a distraction.

This thief, however, has greater concerns than his own

safety, and a secret agenda more valuable than anything he

might steal. 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 end up back in jail, which holds terrors enough; but even

more scary, he could end up in love.

Honesty is a virtue. Deceit is a talent. Theft is an art form.
The Sacred Art of Stealing: prepare to be misled.

'Christopher Brookmyre is a genius'.
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visit the author's website at www.brookmyre.co.uk