4.5 stars From Goodreads: Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price – and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone… A convict with a thirst for revenge A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager A runaway with a privileged past A spy known as the Wraith […]
How to (Not) Get Away With Bank Larceny
I saw a trailer for a movie called Masterminds and something about it seemed familiar, beyond the usual familiarity of derivative comedy. I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered the movie was based on a true story, a story I had entertained myself with while bored at work in 1999. A little more research led me to the book, Heist, written by Jeff Diamant, a journalist who had covered the case for the Charlotte Observer. Heist is about the 1997 Loomis heist in Charlotte, North […]
Gold heist or murder mystery?
This was another Kindle First, so I didn’t pay for it, which is great. Abandon is a town way way up in the mountains in Colorado. It was a mining town that eventually went bust. The story is split between 1893 and 2009. It’s told from a few different people’s perspectives. The 1893 people tell the story of Abandon before it was abandoned (haha, get it?). The 2009 people are climbing up the mountain to see the old town and maybe try to figure out […]
This fantasy heist novel is delicious.
So, I don’t believe in hype. Bear with me here, because what I mean by that isn’t what you probably think I mean. Obviously, I’m not in the habit of denying that things exist. Like, NO, GRAVITY IS NOT REAL AND KOALAS ARE A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION or whatever. “Hype” is a real enough concept that somebody once upon a time had to invent a word to describe it. For me, when I’ve used it as a word, hype is buzz. It’s something that […]