Heist SocietyBy Ally Carter
Disney-Hyperion, 2010. 287 pgs. Young Adult
When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip 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 has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the 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 history--or at least her family's (very crooked) history.
Ally Carter has done it again. Fans of the Gallagher Series will want to check out Heist Society. This was a book that I didn’t want to put down and one I wished I could have read in one sitting. On her blog Carter hints that there will be more books about Kat, so look for another great series from Ally Carter in the future.
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2 comments:
I really liked it as well. I agree that picking up one end is the same as picking up the other because I couldn't leave it alone.
I listened to the audiobook and I sort of wish I hadn't. I didn't enjoy the narrator very much, I wish I had read this instead.
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