Twist
The electrifying heist thriller – now a major movie
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Publisher Description
Packed with action, love and betrayal, Tom Grass's electrifying heist thriller is a gripping reinvention of the Dickens classic, OLIVER TWIST.
Now a major film starring Michael Caine, Lena Headey, Rita Ora and Raff Law.
Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home and no family. All he has is his reputation as one of the most daring street artists in London - whose unique skills are matched only by his infamous talent as a climber and freerunner.
But when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom. Until he is saved by the mysterious Dodge. When Dodge introduces him to con artist and art 'collector' Cornelius Faginescu, Twist realises that he finally has the chance to be part of something. All that he has to do is put aside his moral objections and learn to steal...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Charles Dickens meets Guy Ritchie in Cross's fast-paced debut set in contemporary London, a reimagining of Oliver Twist as a caper novel. Oliver, a homeless 18-year-old, is on the run for tagging walls and the odd police car with graffiti. But Oliver is no ordinary graffiti artist. He's so talented he's recruited into a squad of art thieves mentored by Cornelius Fagin, an elderly Romanian refugee who's planning an ambitious art heist, and Oliver has just the skills Fagin needs to pull it off. If only the potential buyer wasn't a Russian crime kingpin who's as likely to kill them as pay them. The gang's all here: Dodge and Batesy, Cribb, Bullseye the dog, and Nancy Lee. Oliver falls hard for Nancy, even though she's under the thumb of jealous psychopath Bill Sikes. Fagin's gang must execute the heist of their lives without being caught by either the Russian mob or Scotland Yard. Oliver, meanwhile, is more interested in freeing Nancy from Sikes. This often reads like a movie script as one action scene follows another with little down time, and indeed publication will coincide with the release of a motion picture based on the book starring Michael Caine. Green cleverly brings Dickens's acrobatic crew of street urchins into the 21st century.
