The Thieves of Darkness

The Thieves of Darkness
ISBN-10
1416598979
ISBN-13
9781416598978
Category
Fiction
Pages
592
Language
English
Published
2011-02-22
Publisher
Pocket Star
Author
Richard Doetsch

Description

WILL A TREACHEROUS MISSION LEAD THEMINTO ANCIENT PARADISE . . . Reformed master thief Michael St. Pierre thinks his crimi-nal days are behind him when his best friend Simon is sentenced to die in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his checkered career, Michael frees his friend only to discover his own girlfriend in the next cell. . . . OR STRAIGHT TO A RUTHLESS ENEMY? With a madman on their heels, the trio plots a series of daring thefts inside the world’s most celebrated and heavily guarded sanctums to find the mysterious artifact that landed them behind bars: a map to a secret holy place predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. From the glittering banks of the Bosporus to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, they embark on a globe-trotting adventure to preserve the priceless relics at stake and protect the fate of humanity.

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