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James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense. Now available in e-book format for the first time.James Twining’s first Tom Kirk adventure – available in e-book format for the first time.Tom Kirk. The world's greatest art thief.Jennifer Browne. An FBI agent desperate for a second chance.Cassius. The criminal mastermind controlling the art underworld.In Paris a priest is murdered, the killers dumping his mutilated body into the Seine. Only he has taken a secret with him to his death. A secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and reawakens memories of Depression–era politics and a seventy–year–old heist.Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent is assigned to the case.This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgement three years before.Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox and Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief is the prime suspect.Tom, caught between his desire to finally get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, faces a thrilling race against time to clear his name. A race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle.
When a murdered priest’s secret links a modern-day crime to a historic heist, master art thief Tom Kirk finds himself framed for a daring robbery at Fort Knox. Tom Kirk, seeking an exit from his criminal life, is forced by a ruthless mastermind named Cassius to execute one final job. Simultaneously, FBI agent Jennifer Browne pursues the case as a final attempt to salvage her career after a past professional failure. The narrative follows their converging paths across Europe as they navigate a high-stakes game of deception, where the physical constraints of international borders and the logical constraints of a criminal underworld dictate their survival. The story unfolds through a fast-paced, third-person perspective that emphasizes the technical precision of the heist and the urgency of the investigation.
This novel functions as a classic entry in the heist thriller genre, prioritizing rapid pacing and global scope. The narrative structure relies on the tension between the protagonist's desire for autonomy and the external pressures exerted by criminal syndicates. Readers likely appreciate the technical detail applied to the art theft sequences and the procedural elements of the FBI investigation. The premise suggests a focus on the cat-and-mouse dynamic between the law and the criminal elite, characteristic of high-stakes suspense fiction.
Page Count:
560
Publication Date:
2012-03-29
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN-10:
0007389582
ISBN-13:
9780007389582
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