Royal Heist: A Novel

By Lynda La Plante

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400060257
• ISBN13: 9781400060252
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.2" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Royal Heist is a great read

The book arrived as promised and looked as good as new. a great read as well

royal heist

The book was received on time and was in very good condition. I was well satisfied with the purchase.

Couldn't put it down!

This was a fun book! The idea of stealing the crown jewels seemed a little unbelievable, but as things unfolded, I was completely drawn in. I even found myself reading too fast sometimes, wondering what would happen next. The thing that surprised me most was that even though I knew what the characters were doing was wrong, I still was rooting for them! Overall, an entertaining book.

Slow start but turns out to be a great story

I have to admit I strugged through the start of this book but was glad when the storyline picked up and turned into a great story. I have never read anything previously by this author, but will look forward to reading more. This story had it by engaging the reader as to how a caper comes to be, gets planned out, completed and shows what the consequences are to the characters involved. All in all, a complete story of suspense and not your typical "murder mystery story whodunnit". I enjoyed this book for its original approach and suspense and would recommend it for a good read.

A crown jewel heist

I generally like my caper novels with laughs and switchbacks. Instead, LaPlante, creator of TV's "Prime Suspect," delivers ruthlessness and daring. And a seemingly endless supply of obstacles. All of which Edward de Jersey is single-mindedly determined to overcome in his do-or-die quest to keep his life in the style to which he has become accustomed. De Jersey, son of a bookie, has risen to the top of British society on the proceeds of previous criminal success. Now he breeds racehorses, looking for his crowning jewel, a derby winner. With Royal Flush that glory is almost within grasp when it all comes tumbling down. Suddenly, in a dot.com tumble, he's bankrupt. His trusted accountant has lost it all and killed himself. Having previously carried out Britain's most daring robberies (a fact unknown to all but his accomplices), de Jersey dreams up a scheme to gather his old gang together and recoup his losses. By stealing the Crown Jewels. There are lots of problems with this plan, of course. Security seems impregnable. The old gang isn't getting any younger and none of them have stolen so much as a stick of gum in years. De Jersey's wife is angry and suspicious about his secrecy. His accountant's sister-in-law has gotten curious. And the team of robbers keeps getting bigger. To pull this one off de Jersey needs a lot of accomplices, including a computer hacker, a queen, a lady-in-waiting, and a footman. De Jersey himself becomes a less sympathetic character as the plans grow more complicated, but the secondary characters are appealing. There's an odd distance to this novel, which is a mite off-putting, but the daring plot keeps the pages turning.