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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him

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The Mortdecai Trilogy

Kyril Bonfiglioli · 528 pages

Les aventures aux quatre coins du monde de Charlie Mortdecai, un curieux marchand d'art entouré d'amis peu scrupuleux. Par chance, lorsqu'il est soupçonné dans des affaires de vol de tableau, de mariage par intérêt et d'assassinat de la reine d'Angleterre, cet aristocrate dégénéré et snob se sert de ses contacts avantageux au sein de la haute société londonienne pour sen tirer.

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Red Seas Under Red Skies

Scott Lynch · 588 pages

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidek

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The Sacred Art of Stealing

Christopher Brookmyre · 416 pages

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The Thought Gang

Tibor Fischer · 310 pages

Eddie Coffin, a washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher, and Hubert, an incompetent, freshly-released one-armed armed robber, question the meaning of life, the value of money, and the role of banks as they wind their way from Montpelier to Toulon in search of the greatest heist in history.

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Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

Maurice Leblanc · 198 pages

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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

Julian Rubinstein · 336 pages

Part Pink Panther, part Unbearable Lightness of Being, part Slap Shot, this uproariously funny, exuberantly praised book tells the story of Attila Ambrus, a professional hockey goalkeeper (possibly the worst in the sports history), gravedigger, roulette addict, whiskey drinker (with a fondness for women in leopard-skin hot pants), and native of Transylvania who became Hungarys celebrated gentlemen

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Thief of Thieves, Vol. 2, "Help Me"

Robert Kirkman, James Asmus · 144 pages

"Conrad Paulson lives a secret double life as master thief, Redmond. There is nothing he can't steal, nothing he can't have...except for the life he left behind. Now with a grown son he hardly knows and an ex-wife he never stopped loving, Conrad must try to piece together what's left of his life before the FBI finally catches up to him...but it appears they are the least of his worries." --p.[4] o

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Artemis

Andy Weir · 337 pages

**JASMINE BASHARA** never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity's first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she's owed for a long time. So when a chance at

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The Good Thief's Guide to Paris

Chris Ewan · 280 pages

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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

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The Mourner

Richard Stark, John Banville · 160 pages

The fourth Parker novel has the main character coming up against the KGB while on the trail of a small statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb.

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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling

Lawrence Block · 227 pages

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Swag

Elmore Leonard · 240 pages

The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick--all of them involving guns--and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth. But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken

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The Fame Thief

Timothy Hallinan

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The Lock Artist

Steve Hamilton · 371 pages

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The Alloy of Law

Brandon Sanderson · 362 pages

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are re

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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

E.W. Hornung · 292 pages

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Thief of Thieves, Vol. 1: "I Quit."

Robert Kirkman, Nick Spencer · 152 pages

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Do Butler's Burgle Banks?

P.G. Wodehouse · 208 pages

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Void Moon

Michael Connelly · 391 pages

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die. In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cas

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Going Postal

Terry Pratchett · 416 pages

Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, w

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Foundryside

Robert Jackson Bennett · 501 pages

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