The Pell Heist

Jack Legare's the last person you'd enlist to recover five priceless paintings stolen twenty-five years ago. He can't tell a Matisse from a Monet. He has no background in law enforcement. He's going broke, and his inner circle think he's an idiot for abandoning Wall Street to buy a money-pit marina.But a former client knows Legare's talents and woos him to join her quest to reclaim the missing masterpieces. He in turn recruits Helen Chan, a beautiful lawyer with a shadowy past and...
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Jack Legare's the last person you'd enlist to recover five priceless paintings stolen twenty-five years ago. He can't tell a Matisse from a Monet. He has no background in law enforcement. He's going broke, and his inner circle think he's an idiot for abandoning Wall Street to buy a money-pit marina.But a former client knows Legare's talents and woos him to join her quest to reclaim the missing masterpieces. He in turn recruits Helen Chan, a beautiful lawyer with a shadowy past and disregard for authority. The more they uncover, the uglier their findings get. Until, Jack and Helen know too much to live.If you like underdogs who face overwhelming odds and "smart-talking characters" ensnared by "diabolically elegant business crimes," which is how the New York Times describes Vonnegut's thrillers¿ If you're sick of waiting to find out who robbed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum¿ Read this action-packed thriller from acclaimed author, Norb Vonnegut.