Name: The Sacred Art of Stealing

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Year: 2002
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Crime, Mystery, Humor, Thriller
Culture: Scotland

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ISBNs:
9780349114903
0349114900
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 ...
This book is part of the "Angelique De Xavier" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"A Snowball In Hell"
First published in 2008
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"A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away"
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