The Bounty: A Novel by Janet Evanovich (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Bounty by Janet Evanovich, Steve Hamilton In the latest instant New York Times bestseller in the Fox OHare series, FBI agent Kate OHare and charming criminal Nick Fox race against time to uncover a buried train filled with Nazi gold--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Straight as an arrow special agent Kate OHare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet--a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe. Kate and Nick know that there is only one man who can find the fortune and bring down the Brotherhood--the same man who taught Nick everything he knows--his father, Quentin. As the stakes get higher, they must also rely on Kates own father, Jake, who shares his daughters grit and stubbornness. Too bad they can never agree on anything. From a remote monastery in the Swiss Alps to the lawless desert of the Western Sahara, Kate, Nick, and the two men who made them who they are today must crisscross the world in a desperate scramble to stop their deadliest foe in the biggest adventure of their lives. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Janet Evanovich has written a staggering forty-five New York Times bestsellers over the last twenty-eight years. In addition to her #1 New York Times bestselling Stephanie Plum novels and many other popular books, Janet is the author of The Recovery Agent, an exciting new series that will continue in 2025 with The Kings Ransom. Steve Hamilton is the two-time Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Alex McKnight crime series, the Nick Mason series, and The Lock Artist. He has either won or been nominated for the Shamus Award, Barry Award, Anthony Award, Dashiell Hammett Prize, American Library Association Alex Award, CWA Gold Dagger, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. Excerpt from Book Chapter One CHAPTER ONE "The target is approaching the Vatican." It was something Agent Kate OHare never thought shed hear, at least not outside a movie theater. As she stared at the video monitor, Nick Fox leaned down next to her, so close she could feel his breath on her neck. Cologne, hair product, pheromones. Whatever the combination, it tried to have its usual effect on her, but she kept her focus. "Do you really think this guy is as good as I am?" Nick asked. "Maybe better," Kate said. "Youre the one who got caught." Nick laughed that off. Even if he was "retired" from the business, he was still loving every minute of this trip to Italy, especially this chance to watch a master thief at work. He had once been a world-class thief himself, and had barely avoided a lifetime stay in the federal ADX Supermax prison. He bartered for his freedom by agreeing to help the FBI run semilegal cons and takedowns on the worst-of-the-worst, technically out-of-reach criminals. Kate tracked him for years and finally brought him down, only to be told by the deputy director himself that her next assignment was to be Nicks full-time handler, minder, wrangler, manager, babysitter, whatever you wanted to call it. Nick didnt go to prison in leg irons. He accepted the full-time shadow employment offer from the United States Department of Justice. Nick was six feet tall, with soft brown hair, intelligent brown eyes, and a boyish grin that brought out the laugh lines around his eyes. He had the agile body of a tennis pro, lean and firm. He was smart, sexy, and playful, and if Nick had once been a world-class thief, he was still and always would be a galaxy-class kisser. From the beginning, it was all Kate could do to keep a professional distance. It was a goal she had thrown out the window on more than one occasion, and even now she wasnt sure what to call their official "status." In Facebook terms, it would have to be "Its complicated." Tonight, Kate was six thousand miles from her Los Angeles cubicle, officially on loan to Interpol. She was part of a small international task force assisting the Vatican Gendarmeries Gruppo Intervento Rapido, the Rapid Intervention Group, who were acting on dark web intel that the museum complex was being targeted for a nighttime break-in. Her job was to provide Nick Foxs expertise to the RIG, and make sure he acted like an angel. As exciting as that assignment might sound, she actually felt more like the trainer who brings the gorilla onto the movie set for the big action scene. No one even notices the trainer until the gorilla starts tearing everything up and stealing all of the food from the catering table. Nick had been on his best behavior so far. He generously led the team through every phase of a high-level professional infiltration, taking them step by step through everything he would do if he were in the mood to break into the Vatican City Museum and steal something incredibly rare and incredibly valuable. The inspector general of the Vatican Gendarmerie was a serious, no-nonsense man named Lorenzo Vitali, a former commander from the Italian Carabinieri. He was essentially half policeman and half soldier, who had answered a higher calling to take over security at the Vatican. Hed been skeptical of everything Nick Fox said, until Nick walked him around the citys perimeter, pointing out every possible point of "surreptitious entry." "You have just over six hundred full-time residents living in this city," Nick had said. "Yet every day, you open the gates and admit how many people?" "On a busy day," Vitali had said, "over twenty thousand." "Signore Inspector, you are tempting me back into a life of sin." "We have one of the most advanced security systems in the world, Mr. Fox." Nick had smiled. "Thats an interesting first response, Signore Inspector. You didnt say you have a hundred highly trained and heavily armed guards. You didnt say you have a sniper positioned on every roof. You said you have a system ." Nick leaned in closer to the inspector and said, "I spent my entire professional career absolutely in love with systems ." Nick and Kate were now stationed in a small room on the third floor of the museum complex, in front of a large bank of video surveillance screens. As a precaution, Pope Francis had been taken by helicopter to the summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, twenty miles away. Forty-two members of the combined Gendarmerie/Interpol force were closely watching every inch of the museum. Kate was the only woman on the team, and if she felt at all uncomfortable working in a city where women were required to cover their arms and knees, at least she was wearing her favorite outfit, a blue windbreaker with the letters "FBI" written across the back, with a black T-shirt under a black Kevlar vest. Her chestnut-brown hair was tied up in her usual all-business ponytail. She had her Glock 9mm handgun tucked into her belt, and her Ontario MK 3 Navy SEAL knife strapped to her leg. Both were technically forbidden here, but Inspector Vitali, who tonight was personally commanding the Rapid Intervention Group, had seen Kate sliding her Glock under her windbreaker. If he was going to object, that would have been the time, but he had done nothing other than raise one eyebrow in appreciation. The radio on the table squawked again. "The target is climbing the north wall, near the Cortile del Belvedere." Nick and Kate watched the video screen directed at the north wall. The image flickered for a moment, then was restored. There was nobody to see. "He looped the camera feed," Nick said. "Very smooth. Couldnt have done it better myself." "The target is moving through the Pigna Courtyard," the radio voice said, "toward the north side of the museum." As they stared at another screen, they saw nothing but the brief movement of a single shadow. "No security guard would ever catch that," Nick said, nodding in appreciation. "Im watching a master at work." "Dont get too attached to him," Kate said. "Hes going to be in handcuffs in about five minutes." "You dont have him yet." "Weve lost visual," the radio voice said. "Last seen a hundred feet from the Command Center." They sat in silence as a full minute ticked by. They waited to pick him up again, but then every video screen went black. "He took them all offline," Nick said. "Its a gutsy move. Makes us blind, but at the same time announces that hes on the grounds. Hes going to have to move fast now." "Weve got the backup cameras," Kate said. "On a separate circuit. The team spent all day yesterday installing them." She opened a laptop and brought up a multiscreen view. "There," she said, pointing to a dark figure moving down a hallway. The resolution wasnt nearly as good as the regular security cameras, but Nick and Kate could make out the figure, maybe six feet tall, moving with speed and efficiency. Like UCLAs beloved basketball coach John Wooden used to say, Be quick but dont hurry . "What is he wearing?" Kate asked. She leaned forward, squinting. The thief was dressed all in black, and he appeared to be wearing a thin backpack. "I dont get it," Nick said. "If youre going for the ring, you just slip it into your pocket. You dont need a backpack." The ring was the diamond-encrusted ring that once belonged to Pope Paul VI, the featured piece in a special exhibit of papal jewelry displayed in glass cases throughout the Galleria dei Candelabri. Worth many millions of dollars, it was the kind of ring that the current pope in all his modesty would never wear, but Pope Paul VI hadnt seemed to mind a little bling now and then. Only this ring was fake. The Vatican officials had refused to leave the real thing vulnerable to theft, or even to being touched by an outsider. But this fake ring was so convincing, especially in the semidarkness of the closed museum, the team was sure that the target would take the bait. They watched as the intruder left one cameras view, then appeared in another. He was in the Galleria dei Candelabri now, where a trap had been set. Nick and Kate held their breath as the figure approached the display case. All he had to do was lift the glass and the charges would go from simple trespassing and breaking and entering to grand theft and desecration of a holy artifact and a dozen other charges that would put him away for the rest of his life. If the good Catholics around here had their way, for the rest of his afterlife, too. The figure came closer and closer to the display case. He paused for one moment, the time it took to let out one breath, then kept moving. Nick and Kate both stared at the screen. "What just happened?" Kate asked. Nick didnt answer. "Did he know it was a fake?" Kate asked. "Is that possible? He didnt look at it for more than one second ." "I saw them put that ring in the case today," Nick said. "It would have fooled me." He kept staring at the screen. "Maybe were asking the wrong question. Maybe this was never about stealing the ring." "What else could he be after?" Kate asked. "What else is as valuable? And as easy to take out of the museum?" "From the beginning, weve been assuming that hes a world-class thief , looking for a big score. But you said it yourself, if hes so good, how come weve never even heard of him? A thief this good just do Details ISBN1982157143 Short Title The Bounty Pages 320 Language English ISBN-10 1982157143 ISBN-13 9781982157142 Format Paperback Subtitle A Novel Series Number 7 Series A Fox and OHare Novel Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-02-15 UK Release Date 2022-02-15 DEWEY 813.54 Audience General Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Simon & Schuster Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2022-02-15 Author Steve Hamilton We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134566927;

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