The Sacred Art Of Stealing

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 .

Title - The Sacred Art Of Stealing

Edition -

Author - Christopher Brookmyre

ISBN 13 - 9780349115542

Imprint - Abacus

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 03/10/2002

Prize -

No. of pages - 416

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 135 x 216 x mm

Weight - g

Languages - English