Three-Edged Sword
A Novel
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel.
“A super-thief who leaves no trace.”—Andy Garcia
“An anti-hero for our times.”—Sarah Dunn
“A can't-miss master.”—David Baldacci
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.
ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES.
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 do the man’s dirty work to set them free. It’s something Riley ordinarily would find a modest day’s work, infiltrating a madman’s Soviet missile silo in one of the world’s most remote places, all to find a secret on a tiny flash drive—but he’s never had to race the clock like this.
SOMETIMES TRUTH CAN BE A THREE-EDGED SWORD.
From its vivid, remote locales to its John Wick-meets-Deadpool dialogue, this gripping heist novel from Jeff Lindsay, author of the Dexter series, is everything: an utterly escapist, must-read novel of espionage, thievery, love and betrayal. It twists, it turns, and keeps everything on the line until the very end. Even for Riley, it looks like this time, the only way out is through.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller Lindsay's uneven third outing for master thief Riley Wolfe (after 2020's Fool Me Twice), rogue CIA team leader Chase Prescott coerces Wolfe into infiltrating the highly secure island of a Russian icon collector off the Lithuanian coast to steal a jump drive containing top-secret information that's stored in an impregnable vault. As payment, Wolfe can help himself to an icon. Meanwhile, Prescott kidnaps Wolfe's mother and his art forger friend, Monique, both of whom are in a coma and unable to defend themselves, to use as leverage to ensure Wolfe's cooperation. What seems like an impossible challenge, however, becomes yet another adventure in which Wolfe must pull out all the stops to steal the drive and circumvent Prescott's treachery. The efforts of FBI agent Frank Delgado and his hacker sidekick, Miranda Shaleki, to locate Wolfe's mother add to the suspense, and the tip of the cap to Edgar Allan Poe at the climax is effectively chilling, but the constant switches in point of view chop up the narrative flow, and the chapters involving Monique distract from the main plotline. Hopefully, Lindsay will return to form next time.
