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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

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Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the...

Going by the Book (2007)

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Things get out of control when Doman, an eager and saintly traffic cop, is asked the play the role...

Den Of Thieves (2018)

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Den of Thieves is a gritty crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personal lives of an...

Alcatraz Prison Escape 3-D - The Gangstar Jail Break-out Sim-ulator

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Escape out of PRISON! Game one of the Alcatraz prison break series. A mofia city gangster vegas...

McVicar (1980)

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'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public...

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Nov 25, 2019

The Sacred Art of Stealing

Christopher Brookmyre | 2003 | Crime, Fiction & Poetry

9.0

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A daring bank robbery in broad daylight puts detective Angelique De Xavier on the trail of a highly intelligent, highly motivated and highly unusual thief. The closer she gets the more she both admires him and wonders at his real motives.

This is classic Brookmyre; plenty of Scottish patois and references, clever and imaginative situations and well drawn characters. Nobody in a Brookmyre novel is black or white, everyone has shades of grey, sometimes more than one shade and this book is no exception.

As would be expected this is a thriller with a wry twist of humour running through it; the bank robbery itself is both tense and a hoot to read as the police are completely outmaneouvred. As the real pursuit by De Xavier continues through the rest of the book the reader is drawn in and exposed to every twist as she experiences it.

A thoroughly good read and highly recommended.