JAMES TWINING

Sevilla. Während die vermummten Büßer durch die Stadt ziehen, rennt ein Mann um sein Leben. New York. Eine harmlose Fälschung weitet sich aus zu einem Skandal, der den gesamten internationalen Kunsthandel erschüttert. Paris. Ein Gemälde von Leonardo da Vinci ist verschwunden, und an seiner Stelle ist eine Katze an die Wand genagelt. Ex-Kunstdieb Tom Kirk, als Experte hinzugerufen, erkennt sofort, dass die Warnung ihm gilt. Ein alter Feind plant den Coup des Jahrhunderts. Er hat es auf das berühmteste Gemälde der Welt abgesehen: die Mona Lisa. Doch auch die ist vielleicht nicht echt ...

Mafia, a secret society and the worldâs greatest treasures all converge in James Twiningâs all new jawâdropping thriller featuring reformed art thief Tom KirkIt begins with a young man hanging from the Ponte Sant' Angelo Rome, his pockets weighed down with lead whilst the current of the river below slowly tightens the noose around his neck.Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, retired art thief Tom Kirk is asked by an old friend to investigate a case involving the theft of a long lost Caravaggio painting. When tragedy strikes Tom is left holding a blood-soaked body.Back in Rome Art Protection Squad officer Allegra Damico has been called to the Parthenon where a second body has been found, It begins with a young man hanging from the Ponte Sant' Angelo Rome, his pockets weighed down with lead whilst the current of the river below slowly tightens the noose around his neck.Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, retired art thief Tom Kirk is asked by an old friend to investigate a case involving the theft of a long lost Caravaggio painting. When tragedy strikes Tom is left holding a blood-soaked body.Back in Rome police Lieutenant Allegra Damico has been called to the Parthenon where a second body has been found, but this time the body is surrounded by mannequins. When a third body is found crucified upside down in the middle of the ancient forum Allegra realises there is a sinister link between the murders. Someone is staging famous Caravaggio paintings. Suspecting the detective leading the case is corrupt Allegra begins her own investigation.Spurred on by grief and the desire to avenge the murder of his friend, Tom follows a trail to Rome where he finds Allegra piecing together a similar mystery. Before long they both find themselves submerged in a vast criminal conspiracy involving the police, politicians, the church and a secret society born of a pact between two Mafia families decades before.

Twining, JamesJames Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense.Tom Kirk. The world's greatest art thief.Jennifer Browne. An FBI agent desperate for a second chance.Cassius. The criminal mastermind controlling the art underworld.In Paris a priest is murdered, the killers dumping his mutilated body into the Seine. Only he has taken a secret with him to his death. A secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and reawakens memories of Depression-era politics and a seventy-year-old heist.Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent is assigned to the case.This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgement three years before.Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox and Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief is the prime suspect.Tom, caught between his desire to finally get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, faces a thrilling race against time to clear his name. A race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle.

In der Seine bei Paris treibt die Leiche eines Priesters. Bei der Obduktion macht man in seinem Magen einen sensationellen Fund. Aus dem streng bewachten Tresor in Fort Knox ist ein Schatz von nationaler Bedeutung verschwunden. Nur einer kann einen solchen Einbruch verübt haben. Tom Kirk. Meisterdieb. Ein Mann, der in den Akten der CIA als tot geführt wird. Aber Kirk lebt. Und er ist unschuldig. Gemeinsam mit der jungen FBI-Agentin Jennifer macht sich Kirk auf eine Hetzjagd, die ihn von London über Paris und Amsterdam bis nach Istanbul führt - auf der Suche nach den wahren Dieben und der legendären Double-Eagle-Münze ...

This title has high adventure, and mind-blowing suspense. Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief, is back on another life-threatening mission. In London, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his hospital bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy - his severed left arm. In Fort Mead, Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the NSA museum and steals a World War II Enigma machine, lynching the guard who happens to cross their path. Meanwhile, in Prague, a frenzied and mindless anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue culminates in the theft of a seemingly worthless painting by a little known Czech artist called Karel Bellak. A year has passed since Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief, decided to put his criminal past behind him and embark on a new career, on the right side of the law . Then, three major thefts occur, and suddenly Tom is confronted with a deadly mystery and a sinister face from the past.

Una serie de muertes simultáneas, en Amsterdam, Fort Knox y París, parecen estar conectadas por un singular objeto: una moneda de oro de veinte dólares, la 'doble águila'. Para resolver este

Tres ciudades, tres misteriosos robos: el brazo izquierdo de un anciano superviviente de Auschwitz, en Londres; una máquina descifradora: Enigma, en Estados Unidos; un cuadro, en una sinagoga de Praga. La conexión entre las tres desapariciones se halla en un cuerpo de élite creado por Himmler para una misión muy especial: proteger el «tren del oro», que transportaba el legendario tesoro de los nazis. El ex ladrón de guante blanco Tom Kirk debe encontrar las pistas de esta secta secreta. Se trata de la secuela de Doble águila (P&J, 2006), novela también protagonizada por Tom Kirk que tuvo una excelente acogida de público. Una escritura ágil y muy cinematográfica, con capítulos cortos y grandes dosis de suspense. Temas históricos extremadamente atractivos: el tesoro nazi, la máquina Enigma, el tren que salió de Hungría con todo el expolio de las riquezas de los judíos, los cuerpos de élite del ejército alemán…