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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences" -- Provided by publisher.
"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago, presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice, has never reconciled with...
5) Cutthroats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Lifetime outlaws Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, but when the younger members of their gang rebel, they must pull one last job to finance a retirement far away from the long arm of the law.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series, comes a new mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise and violent when he needs to be. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets only the .1% and is willing to kill when necessary: He despises the degenerate and immoral possessors of the objects that he steals. In this series launch, Riley targets an extraordinary set of crown jewels, a heist that...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 02
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulling off an impossible crime is the only way he can stay alive. Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world's most demanding--and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe's life. -- adapted from dust jacket
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry, "who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks" (Stephen King), comes a nail-biting race against death as a young burglar realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else become the next victim Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief--with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus. One of Publishers Weekly's top ten most anticipated books of 2022! Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians...
10) Zero days
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer...
11) Strip
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu "Manco" Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank's night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West"--
13) Blood pact
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 page ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Approached by a shadowy organization seeking to claim a conquistador treasure, Kirk McGarvey embarks on a dangerous pursuit from Washington to Seville, where he confronts one of the most ruthless assassins of his career.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series, comes a new mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise and violent when he needs to be. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets only the .1% and is willing to kill when necessary: He despises the degenerate and immoral possessors of the objects that he steals. In this series launch, Riley targets an extraordinary set of crown jewels, a heist that...
15) Burning daylight
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
vi, 329 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Three-Fingered Jack McKinney's young son asks him to find his father, who abandoned him and his mother, Luke Jensen agrees to help the boy, but finds his good deed putting him in the middle of a deadly father-and-son reunion.
16) Nightwork
Author
Language
English
Description
When Harry Booth started stealing at nine, it was to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head and pay her medical bills. At night, in darkness, he'd slip into rich people's empty homes, opening drawers and safes filled with luxuries he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer after a long, valiant battle, he left Chicago - but kept up his nightwork. From leaving a party at a Savannah mansion with a diamond bracelet...
17) Foundryside
Author
Series
The founders trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fearless thief and master of disguise plots an impossible crime"--
Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it's the most powerful who have him in their grips. It's not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it's the fact that Riley has to...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...