Ballantine Books
June 2005
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Featuring: Edward de Jersey
448 pages ISBN: 0812968034 EAN: 9780812968033 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
From Lynda La Plante, one of the world’s greatest crime
writers, Royal Heist is a big, dashing novel of
deception, passion, and international suspense, in which a
man with a dangerous double life masterminds the greatest
robbery of all time.
With a beautiful family and a
magnificent fortune, Edward de Jersey is making news with
his prized racehorse Royal Flush. But while de Jersey
socializes with the cream of English society, he keeps to
himself the details of his background and how he acquired
his wealth. The son of an East End bookie, de Jersey
reinvented himself as an aristocrat after pulling off some
of England’s most notorious heists. He has no intention of
ever going back to crime . . . until his financial adviser
loses his entire fortune in a disastrous investment and de
Jersey decides to retrieve it the old-fashioned way: by
stealing it.
From Monaco to the Hamptons, from London
to the shadowy back alleys of cyberspace, de Jersey goes
into action, using guile, force, and the latest technology
to put together the perfect plan. Drawing on the expertise
of a computer hacker with a passion for Elvis, the inside
knowledge of a dying aristocrat, and the skill of a
professional impersonator, de Jersey is ready to commit his
greatest and final crime. He’s going to steal the crown
jewels from under the nose of the royals
themselves.
Now, as Royal Flush prepares for a
spectacular run at the Derby, de Jersey faces his moment of
truth: How much is he willing to risk to win the sport’s
most coveted prize? And just how far will he go to get away
with the perfect crime?
A novel that builds to an
amazing crescendo of suspense, Royal Heist is a
glamorous and gritty tale of men and women bound together by
love, greed, trust, and mistrust. With all the pounding
excitement of a high-stakes horse race, this is fiction that
takes hold, doesn’t let go, and dares us to keep guessing
until the very end.
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