The Picasso heist / James Patterson and Howard Roughan.

By:

Patterson, James, 1947- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Roughan, Howard [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 372, 17 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781538758434
1538758431

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Thrillers (Fiction)

DDC classification:

813/.54 23

LOC classification:

Summary: A newly unveiled Picasso, hidden for a century in a dusty French attic, is set to be auctioned at the prestigious House of Echelon. And Halston has a cunning plan. One that could secure millions for her future, and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father. But to pull off the heist of the century, she must assemble an unlikely a master forger, a ruthless Bulgarian mob boss with his own agenda, and an eccentric fashion designer whose flair for the dramatic might be their only ticket into the elite circles of the art world. In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will Halston's brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies and secure her freedom?

List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Fiction

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC PATTERSON	Available		36748002627034

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Instant New York Times bestseller!

"Weeks before thieves broke into the Louvre, James Patterson started promoting an upcoming jewelry heist novel. The Picasso Heist is now ripped-from-the-headlines relevant." -- USA Today

A $100 million painting.

A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa.

Everyone wants to possess it.

Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A glamorous twenty-two-year-old art thief.

Only one person knows how to take it.

She's the rival none of the power players see coming.

Includes a sneak peek from James Patterson and Susan DiLallo's book, The invisible woman.

A newly unveiled Picasso, hidden for a century in a dusty French attic, is set to be auctioned at the prestigious House of Echelon. And Halston has a cunning plan. One that could secure millions for her future, and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father. But to pull off the heist of the century, she must assemble an unlikely a master forger, a ruthless Bulgarian mob boss with his own agenda, and an eccentric fashion designer whose flair for the dramatic might be their only ticket into the elite circles of the art world. In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will Halston's brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies and secure her freedom?

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Kirkus Book Review

Patterson's latest co-authored thriller follows an enterprising brother-and-sister team who are determined to steal a recently discovered Picasso painting from the Echelon auction house and replace it with a forgery. Even though they've already had extensive experience courtsiding--that is, getting a tennis umpire to slow down his calls so they can place bets a second or two before the odds change--Halston Graham and her older brother, Skip, can't do this on their own. So in the first of many deliberately engineered setbacks, Halston arranges to get caught at her job and spirited away by Blaggy Danchev, the big muscle for crime lord Anton Nikolov, so she can turn around and entice Nikolov and his minions into the heist. Armed with Nikolov's backing and a perfect replica created by Wolfgang, her friend and accomplice, Halston worms her way into the confidence of fashion designer and art buff Enzio Bergamo and Echelon CEO Charles Waxman, both of whom will be instrumental to the scheme in ways they could never have imagined. The heist doesn't go off without a hitch; there are many hitches, some real, some fake, before the prize is carried off and replaced with the copy. But that turns out to be only the opening act in an endless series of head-spinning felonies, complications, betrayals, and unmaskings that will keep the target audience turning pages far later into the night than they should. Canny fans will realize early on that they can stop reading any time and still have the satisfaction of having digested all the plot twists they can handle, and then some. The biggest deception is the title, which should really be 'The Picasso Heist, Etc.' Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.