The Sacred Art of Stealing
2002 • 410 pages

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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 ...


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#2 in Angelique De Xavier

Angelique De Xavier is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Christopher Brookmyre.

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A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
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The Sacred Art of Stealing
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A Snowball in Hell

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Simon Darcourt in the last book, The Marriage At Cana by the Unknown Master in this one...very Cornish

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