TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brookmyre,Christopher
TI  - The sacred art of stealing
SN  - 0349114900
U1  - 823.914 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Abacus
KW  - Bank robberies
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Policewomen
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - Satire
N2  - "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..." - Amazon
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