Lazzaro has a talent for catching criminals, a talent that has gained him as much trouble as it has acclaim in the years since he arrived at the royal palace to attend his mother, infamous concubine to the King. Increasingly frustrated that the man who murdered his mother continues to elude him, La
Crown Jewel
β Scribed by Christopher Reich
- Publisher
- Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Edition
- First ebook edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0316422908
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β¦ Synopsis
Stolen sports cars, brilliant casinoheists, and the brazen kidnappingof a prince: only the shadowyspy-for-hire Simon Riske can stopthe mastermind behind it all.
Monte Carlo's lavish casinos have become the target of a sophisticated and brutal team of professional gamblers; a casino dealer has been beaten to death; a German heiress's son has been kidnapped. Who better to connect the crimes and foil a daringly brilliant plot than Simon Riske, freelance industrial spy? Riske-
part Bond, part Reacher-knows Monte Carlo well: it's where he was once a thrill-seeking thief himself, robbing armored trucks and leading police on dangerous car chases across the CΓ΄te
d'Azur, until he was double-crossed, served his time, and graduated as an investment genius from the Sorbonne.
Now Riske is a man who solves problems, the bigger and "riskier" the better. From the baccarat tables of Europe's finest casinos to the superyachts moored in...
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Lazzaro has a talent for catching criminals, a talent that has gained him as much trouble as it has acclaim in the years since he arrived at the royal palace to attend his mother, infamous concubine to the King. Increasingly frustrated that the man who murdered his mother continues to elude him, La
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