Royal Heist A Novel

Lynda La Plante

eBook - 2004

From Lynda La Plante, one of the world’s greatest crime writers, Royal Heist is a big, dashing novel of deception, passion, and international suspense, in which a man with a dangerous double life masterminds the greatest robbery of all time.With a beautiful family and a magnificent fortune, Edward de Jersey is making news with his prized racehorse Royal Flush. But while de Jersey socializes with the cream of English society, he keeps to himself the details of his background and how he acquired his wealth. The son of an East End bookie, de Jersey reinvented himself as an aristocrat after pulling off some of England’s most notorious heists. He has no intention of ever going back to crime . . . until his financial adviser loses his entire ...fortune in a disastrous investment and de Jersey decides to retrieve it the old-fashioned way: by stealing it.From Monaco to the Hamptons, from London to the shadowy back alleys of cyberspace, de Jersey goes into action,... more