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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild card�?�The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited�??and the show�??s director, Morgan West, can�??t ignore her growing uneasiness. She�??s certain she hasn�??t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her help�??help she can�??t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and it�??s a game that just might get him killed. With Morgan�??s help, Quinn sets a trap intended to catch someone far more elusive�?�and more deadly�?�than a thief. But an unseen threat shadows him in the fog-shrouded San Francisco night, an unknown adversary more cunning than any he has yet encountered. Now, just when the stakes are higher than even Quinn can imagine, no one can be t… (more)
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Thief Quinn shows up, shot, on museum director Morgan West's doorstep. They'd obviously met before, and had a connection, but something--Quinn being a thief, perhaps?--kept them apart. Nevertheless, when Quinn was wounded, his instincts send him straight to Morgan.
Turns out Quinn is working with the police to trap and catch another, more ruthless thief. It's like To Catch a Thief (Quinn looked, in my imagination, remarkably like Cary Grant), with humor, romance, and a labyrinth of twists and turns.
Always a Thief and its predecessor Once a Thief are, I gather, rewritten from old Loveswepts, reminiscent of Carole Nelson Douglas's Midnight Louie books. How much they're changed, I don't know, but it would be interesting to find out.
At any rate, it was a fun read, and I intend to look for Once a Thief, though I'm not sure I'll be buying it new.
So many good ideas that went absolutely nowhere.
The relationship between Quinn and Morgan is enjoyable though. They have great chemistry and his character is very well developed, but them I'm a sucker for a bad boy :0)
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