Michael St. Pierre

Michael St, Pierre war einmal der beste Dieb aller Zeiten, Er wollte für immer aufhören, Doch als seine Frau erkrankt, kann nur eine kostspielige Operation ihr Leben retten: Er muss innerhalb einer Woche 250,000 Dollar beschaffen, Ein mysteriöser Auftraggeber verspricht ihm genau diese Summe, wenn Michael zwei antike Schlüssel stiehlt, Das Problem: Die Reliquien befinden sich im Vatikan, Michael macht sich bereit für den größten Raub der Geschichte, Er ahnt nicht, dass er etwas stehlen will, das nicht für menschliche Augen bestimmt ist,,,

An irresistible treasure, two master thieves, and a secret as old as mankind . . . Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him, when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, has been locked up and sentenced to die in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his checkered career, Michael is stunned to discover that his new girlfriend, KC, is connected to Simon's case. With a madman on their heels, the three adventurers make their way to Istanbul in search of the mysterious artifact that landed Simon behind bars in the first place: a map containing the location of a holy place lost to the mists of time, a repository of knowledge and treasure predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Testing their courage and wits, Michael and his team are forced to plot a series of daring thefts that take them inside some of the city's most celebrated (and heavily guarded) sanctums, from the imperial harem of Topkapi Palace to the tombs of the Hagia Sophia itself. More than priceless artifacts are at stake-the lives of loved ones and perhaps the fate of humanity itself hang in the balance. A globe-trotting adventure that wings from the glittering banks of the Bosporus to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, The Thieves of Darkness confirms Richard Doetsch's place as the modern-day master of pulse-pounding suspense.