# The Sacred Art Of Stealing

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- Book: [The Sacred Art Of Stealing](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-brookmyre/the-sacred-art-of-stealing) ([The Sacred Art Of Stealing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-brookmyre/the-sacred-art-of-stealing.md))
- Authors: [Chris Brookmyre](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-brookmyre)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4813-196-9
- Published: 2011-06-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The second book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask. He is an art-thief par excellence and she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught and he also has a secret agenda more valuable than anything he might steal. There are risks he can take without jeopardising his plans. He can afford to play cat-and-mouse with the female cop who's on his tail; it might even arguably be necessary. What he can't afford is to let her get too close: he could could end up in jail or, even more scary, he could end up in love ...