The Thieves of Darkness
A Thriller
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
An irresistible treasure, two master thieves, and a secret as old as mankind . . .
Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him, when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, has been locked up and sentenced to die in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his checkered career, Michael is stunned to discover that his new girlfriend, KC, is connected to Simon’s case.
With a madman on their heels, the three adventurers make their way to Istanbul in search of the mysterious artifact that landed Simon behind bars in the first place: a map containing the location of a holy place lost to the mists of time, a repository of knowledge and treasure predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Testing their courage and wits, Michael and his team are forced to plot a series of daring thefts that take them inside some of the city’s most celebrated (and heavily guarded) sanctums, from the imperial harem of Topkapi Palace to the tombs of the Hagia Sophia itself. More than priceless artifacts are at stake—the lives of loved ones and perhaps the fate of humanity itself hang in the balance.
A globe-trotting adventure that wings from the glittering banks of the Bosporus to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, The Thieves of Darkness confirms Richard Doetsch’s place as the modern-day master of pulse-pounding suspense.
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A shop-worn plot and stock characters mar Doetsch's overlong third thriller to feature retired art thief Michael St. Pierre (after The Thieves of Faith). Michael's unconventional priest friend, Fr. Simon Bellatori, fixes up the 38-year-old Michael, whose beloved wife, Mary, died of cancer 18 months earlier, with the beautiful and athletic Katherine "KC" Ryan, who turns out also to be a thief. Soon after falling for KC, Michael has to fly off to Akbiquestan, "a small breakaway republic north of Pakistan," to rescue Simon and KC from a remote prison and certain death. Evil, homicidal businessman Philippe Venue, who's been hit hard by the recession, is searching for a legendary treasure to restore his dwindling fortune. Simon has information that will aid Venue, and soon all are in a race to find the treasure hidden in the Himalayan mountains. Clunky writing (e.g., "As they hugged, you could see the relief pour from their bodies") doesn't help.