Author: Ally Carter
Publisher: Hyperion (a division of Disney)
Page: 287
Goodreads synopsis:
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 Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has a 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 her family's history--and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way.
Review:
I think that Goodreads synopsis have already gave an apt description for this book. I have always love stories about pranks or anything that got to do with spies. Come on, who doesn't like Spy Kid? When I got older I watched Leverage and Covert Affairs which feature all this cool spies.
This book is about a thief who is sick of stealing that she wanted to live as a normal girl. However, normal is way too over rated and she was kicked out of the school that she conned to get in, in the first place. They're trying to persuade her to go back to her world because her father is in danger.
What intrigue me was there's this anonymous guy who actually committed all the crimes against bad thieves. He used the infamous pseudonym Visily Romani. Visily Romani is Chelovek Pseudonima which literally translate as Alias Man. In this story, it claimed that Visily Romani had done various crimes that is said to be high leveled. That would have been awesome except that this time the Visily Romani crimes pointed directly towards Kat's dad. This Visily Romani stole some paintings that belongs to a tycoon that is another type of bad. They are thieves but he's worse, more ruthless. Even when Kat tirelessly explained countless times that her father did not stole anything because he was busy doing another theft, he still won't believe her.
It was up to Kat to clear her father's name. All this is easier said than done. When even her great-uncle refuses to help, what is a teenager to do? Her cousin Gabs and best friend Hale contacted their partners in crimes, mere teens to assist them to find where the paintings are.
Their adventures of relocating and re-stealing the paintings is truly an awesome read. Along the way, they managed to meet some interesting new people and Kat learned something about her past.
Besides, their con actually made Kat rethink her decision of being normal. Besides, someone of her talent should put it to great use.
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