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The Heist Daniel Silva
Harper
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014 Copyright © Daniel Silva 2014 Cover design layout © HarperCollinsPublishers 2014 Cover photographs © Nik Keevil/Arcangel Images (man); Lorenzo Montezemolo/Getty Images (Venice scene); Joe Beynon/Plain Picture (staircase); Shutterstock.com (sky) Daniel Silva asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work Designed by Leah Carlson-Stanisic A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007552276 Version: 2015-01-07
As always, for my wife, Jamie, and
my children, Nicholas and Lily
Most stolen art is gone forever … The lone bit of good news is that the better the painting, the better the odds it will someday be found.
— EDWARD DOLNICK, THE RESCUE ARTIST
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and who so breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
— ECCLESIASTES 10:8
Contents
Copyright Dedication Preface Part One: Chiaroscuro Chapter 1: St. James’s, London
Chapter 2: Venice
Chapter 3: Venice
Chapter 4: Venice
Chapter 5: Venice
Chapter 6: Lake Como, Italy
Chapter 7: Lake Como, Italy
Chapter 8: Stockwell, London
Chapter 9: Stockwell, London
Chapter 10: Rue De Miromesnil, Paris
Chapter 11: Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris
Chapter 12: Montmartre, Paris
Part Two: Sunflowers
Chapter 13: San Remo, Italy
Chapter 14: Corsica
Chapter 15: Corsica
Chapter 16: Corsica
Chapter 17: Rue De Miromesnil, Paris
Chapter 18: Hyde Park, London
Chapter 19: Amsterdam
Chapter 20: Geneva
Chapter 21: Rue De Miromesnil, Paris
Chapter 22: ÎLe Saint-Louis, Paris
Chapter 23: Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris
Chapter 24: Chelles, France
Chapter 25: Geneva
Part Three: The Open Window
Chapter 26: King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv
Chapter 27: King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv
Chapter 28: Petah Tikva, Israel
Chapter 29: Jerusalem
Chapter 30: Narkiss Street, Jerusalem
Chapter 31: Jerusalem
Chapter 32: King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv
Chapter 33: Linz, Austria
Chapter 34: King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv
Chapter 35: Munich, Germany
Chapter 36: Linz, Austria
Chapter 37: The Attersee, Austria
Chapter 38: The Attersee, Austria
Chapter 39: The Attersee, Austria
Chapter 40: The Attersee, Austria
Chapter 41: The Attersee, Austria
Part Four: The Score
Chapter 42: London
Chapter 43: Chelsea, London
Chapter 44: London—Linz, Austria
Chapter 45: Linz, Austria
Chapter 46: Heathrow Airport, London
Chapter 47: Linz, Austria
Chapter 48: King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv
Chapter 49: The Attersee, Austria
Chapter 50: The Attersee, Austria
Chapter 51: The Attersee—Geneva
Chapter 52: Hotel Métropole, Geneva
