When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the
Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her
Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria...to steal the crown jewels. When
Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own--scamming her way
into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave
the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving "the life" for a
normal life proves harder than she''d expected.
Soon, Kat''s friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of
nowhere to bring her back into the world she tried so hard to
escape. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster''s art
collection has been stolen, and he wants it returned. Only a master
thief could have pulled this job, and Kat''s father isn''t
justonthe suspect list, heisthe list. Caught
between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat''s dad needs her
help.
For Kat there is only one solution: track down the paintings and
steal them back. So what if it''s a spectacularly impossible job?
She''s got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough
talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family''s (very
crooked) history--and, with any luck, steal her life back along the
way.