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Author : Heather Sunseri
language : en
Publisher: Sun Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06-24
A Thief Obsessed written by Heather Sunseri and has been published by Sun Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-24 with Fiction categories.
A former thief. A killer hell-bent on revenge. A master manipulator who brings them both together… And nothing is as it seems. Just as Lola Parks says goodbye to a daring life as an international thief pulling off jewelry, art, and wine heists across Europe, suspected killer Sean Duffy pops up from Dimitri Tobias’s past to threaten everything. When Reynard Jules avoids incarceration for his past indiscretions, he wastes no time letting Lola know that he owns her and that she owes him one last job. Of course, Lola knows it’s never “one last job,” and she will stop at nothing to break free from the man controlling her life. Dimitri is off to Dublin to save his best friend’s sister from a kidnapping by a man so sinister that he refuses to allow Lola anywhere near the situation. Dimitri and Lola soon realize that not only is Lola the one person who can save the sister. But she just might be the one Sean Duffy was after in the first place. Read A Thief Obsessed today to discover whether Lola can pull off one final heist to save her life.
The Art Thief
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Author : Michael Finkel
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-06-25
The Art Thief written by Michael Finkel and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
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Author : Allison Hoover Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-09-17
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much written by Allison Hoover Bartlett and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him. Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust and discovered just how dangerous it can be. John Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed "bibliodick" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Bartlett befriended both outlandish characters and found herself caught in the middle of efforts to recover hidden treasure. With a mixture of suspense, insight, and humor, she has woven this entertaining cat-and-mouse chase into a narrative that not only reveals exactly how Gilkey pulled off his dirtiest crimes, where he stashed the loot, and how Sanders ultimately caught him but also explores the romance of books, the lure to collect them, and the temptation to steal them. Immersing the reader in a rich, wide world of literary obsession, Bartlett looks at the history of book passion, collection, and theft through the ages, to examine the craving that makes some people willing to stop at nothing to possess the books they love.
The Feather Thief
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Author : Kirk Wallace Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-04-24
The Feather Thief written by Kirk Wallace Johnson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-24 with Nature categories.
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
The Orchid Thief
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2011-07-20
The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal
A Thief Consumed
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Author : Heather Sunseri
language : en
Publisher: Sun Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-11
A Thief Consumed written by Heather Sunseri and has been published by Sun Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Fiction categories.
Terrorists and United States Special Forces descend on Paris when Lola Parks stumbles upon top secret information that could get her killed. Lola Parks has waited twelve years to exact revenge against the man who destroyed her family and compelled her into a nomadic life as a master thief, stuck in a constant cat-and-mouse game to avoid Interpol. When she breaks into Claude Marquis’ wine cellar to steal a crate of extremely valuable wine—the last of her family’s legacy—Lola stumbles across highly classified information that could get a national leader, and Lola herself, killed. Dimitri Tobias forced himself apart from Lola for more than a year, terrified he would lead Jack Barnes, a British crime boss who wants Lola dead, to her doorstep. But when Interpol approaches Dimitri with new evidence about Lola’s crimes, and terrorists blow up her Paris flower shop, Dimitri realizes Lola needs him now more than ever. The problem? It’s going to take a lot more than the threat of prison or terrorists’ wrath to scare Lola back into Dimitri’s arms. Can Lola let go of her anger toward Dimitri and her need for revenge long enough to escape the men who want Lola dead? Or will she find that Dimitri’s desires for her are far more dangerous? In A Thief Consumed, Parks abandons her unrealistic desire to break away from a life of crime. Instead, she discovers being a well-known, internationally-wanted thief just might get her exactly what she wants. Download A Thief Consumed,and raise a toast to friendships betrayed, plots of political assassination laid, and debts of revenge repaid. You’ll be up all night drinking in this one!
A Thief Revealed
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Author : Heather Sunseri
language : en
Publisher: Sun Publishing
Release Date : 2018-08-14
A Thief Revealed written by Heather Sunseri and has been published by Sun Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Fiction categories.
Lola Parks is hopelessly trapped, torn between her thirst for freedom and the clutches of the man sculpting her into a master thief. However, her latest heist makes her the target of a murderer. Soon after Lola lifts a diamond worth £2.6 million from the finger of a young socialite at a posh London soirée, the victim ends up missing a finger—and dead. Dimitri Tobias is tasked with finding the thug responsible for murdering his client’s daughter while stealing a priceless diamond. But when Dimitri meets the exquisite and sexy Lola Parks, he is forced to ask if the stunning thief is also a cold-blooded killer. With the diamond in her possession, Lola knows the killer will come for her next. She is left with only one choice: seek the help of the man tracking a thief… and a killer. But can she convince him those two people aren’t one and the same? When Dimitri discovers what evil force is behind the murder, he becomes torn between capturing a thief, saving a thief, and falling in love with a thief. A Thief Revealed is the first book in an exciting new romantic suspense series. It’s fast-paced, thrilling plot and heart-pounding, sexy romance will have you turning pages well into the night. Download A Thief Revealed and discover a new kind of heist novel.
The Falcon Thief
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Author : Joshua Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2021-02-16
The Falcon Thief written by Joshua Hammer and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with True Crime categories.
A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a “vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do” (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.
Always A Thief
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Author : Kay Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2003-06-03
Always A Thief written by Kay Hooper and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-03 with Fiction categories.
In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild card… The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited—and the show’s director, Morgan West, can’t ignore her growing uneasiness. She’s certain she hasn’t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her help—help she can’t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and it’s a game that just might get him killed. With Morgan’s help, Quinn sets a trap intended to catch someone far more elusive…and more deadly…than a thief. But an unseen threat shadows him in the fog-shrouded San Francisco night, an unknown adversary more cunning than any he has yet encountered. Now, just when the stakes are higher than even Quinn can imagine, no one can be trusted—and everything’s at risk.
The Memory Thief
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Author : Lauren Mansy
language : en
Publisher: Blink
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The Memory Thief written by Lauren Mansy and has been published by Blink this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
This thrilling YA fantasy debut follows seventeen-year-old Etta Lark as she navigates the underworld of Craewick to pull off the heist of a lifetime. A YALSA (The Young Adult Library Services Association) Teens' Top Ten Book for 2020, Mansy crafts a grim reality where memories are worth their weight in gold. In the city of Craewick, memories reign. The power-obsessed ruler of the city, Madame, has cultivated a society in which memories are currency, citizens are divided by ability, and Gifted individuals can take memories from others through touch as they please. Seventeen-year-old Etta Lark is desperate to live outside of the corrupt culture, but she grapples with the guilt of an accident that has left her mother bedridden in the city's asylum. When Madame threatens to put her mother up for auction, a Craewick practice in which a "criminal's" memories are sold to the highest bidder before being killed, Etta will do whatever it takes to save her. Even if it means rejoining the Shadows, the rebel group she swore off in the wake of the accident years earlier. To rescue her mother, Etta must prove her allegiance to the Shadows by stealing a memorized map of the Maze, a formidable prison created by the bloodthirsty ruler of a neighboring Realm. Etta faces startling attacks, unexpected romance, and, above all, her own past as she uncovers a conspiracy that challenges everything she knew about herself and the world around her. In a place where nothing is what it seems, can Etta ever become more than a memory thief? Perfect for fans of high-stakemagical heists such as: Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows) Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen) Roshani Chokshi (The Gilded Wolves) "Mansy's debut will delight fantasy readers who revel in fully developed settings and unusual powers."- Booklist "A welcome addition to the YA fantasy canon, The Memory Thief is a suspenseful page-turner, delightfully chock full of unexpected twists and turns."- Shelf Awareness