In the words of E. M. Foster, the difference between story and plot in novels can be summed up in a single word: pain. It is the pain that creates the plot.
This novella is built around a spiral with three different registers. It starts with a realist discourse, the blunt realism of mistreated women. It continues in a tone that is closer to noir, deliberately dark with flashes of humour.
A thirst for money, danger and adventure. Wit, audacity and a love of games. Meet history’s most cunning thieves in this entertaining look at the great robberies of the past two centuries.