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The Moscow Deception

A Novel

#2 in series

by Karen Robards
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ultimatum, a master thief is forced to rob a Moscow museum to save her life.
Clever. Cunning. Highly skilled. There's only one Bianca St. Ives. And for her enemies, that's one too many . . .
Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does, the way her father trained her to—hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed, and she's got her finger flush against the trigger.
But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers, her father loops her in on a job that might just do the trick: recover King Priam's Treasure, a collection of heavily guarded, priceless artifacts stolen by the Russians during World War II, and return it to Germany. Impossible? Maybe for some, but a high-risk heist is all in a day's work for Bianca St. Ives, especially when there's intel on the line—intel that could finally bring down the shadowy forces seeking to bury Bianca for good. Faced with threats that circle closer with every move she makes, she knows the stakes have never been higher, but when you're already living on borrowed time, you have to hustle if you want to live to see tomorrow.
Praise for The Moscow Deception
"The delightful, capable, and frequently funny Bianca is an intoxicating combo of Stephanie Plum and James Bond. . . . Dodging bullets and fists are all in a day's work for Bianca, and, while her adventures may stretch credulity, readers will likely be having too much fun to care." —Publishers Weekly
"A fast-paced, exciting and highly readable thriller. . . . Author Karen Robards has crafted a novel that reads very much like the literary versions of "Alias" or "Mission: Impossible" might, and Bianca is every bit as capable and inventive as Sydney Bristow or Ethan Hunt." —Bookreporter

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Guardian

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 18, 2023

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

      • ISBN: 9781488023538

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781488023538
      • File size: 1184 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781488023538
      • File size: 3850 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 23, 2018
      In bestseller Robard’s exciting follow-up to 2017’s The Ultimatum, master thief Bianca St. Ives has recently discovered an explosive secret about herself, and she’s being hunted by those who are desperate to keep that secret contained. When she learns that a $1 million contract is out on her life, her adoptive father, Mason Thayer, tells her that he can get the contract called off if she steals King Priam’s Treasure—priceless artifacts thought to have belonged to Helen of Troy—right out from under Vladimir Putin’s nose. With the help of her friend, hacker extraordinaire Miles Davis “Doc” Ziegler, Bianca just may pull it off. The delightful, capable, and frequently funny Bianca is an intoxicating combo of Stephanie Plum and James Bond, and her globe-trotting quest takes her from the glittering casinos of Macau all the way to Moscow, paving the way to a (literally) explosive finale. Dodging bullets and fists are all in a day’s work for Bianca, and, while her adventures may stretch credulity, readers will likely be having too much fun to care. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media.

    • Booklist

      May 1, 2018
      In this follow-up to The Ultimatum (2017), security expert Bianca St. Ives must steal a heavily guarded European treasure in order to save her own life. As a baby, Bianca was stolen from the lab where she and 40 other infants, bred to have superhuman powers, were being kept. She alone survived and was raised by the man who rescued her and her biological mother. Now the government will stop at nothing to erase all evidence of their experiment, and Bianca has a bounty on her head. So she's off to the casinos of Macau to rendezvous with the only man who can help her. But first she has to wriggle out of the clutches of a sexy agent who claims he's on her side. From the custom-weapon garter belt to the museum-hacking circus troupe, this delightfully over-the-top thriller is a mile-a-minute adventure. Fans of improbable spy fiction will eat it up.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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