The Moscow deception

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The Moscow deception

Author:

Robards, Karen author

ISBN:

9781432852580

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

Physical Description:

531 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Series title(s):

Guardian series ;

Wheeler large print hardcover series.

Number in series:

BK. 2.

General Note:

Sequel to: The ultimatum.

Summary:

Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out 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. 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. And there's intel on the line that could bring down the shadowy forces seeking to bury Bianca for good.

Bianca St. Ives is being chased by assassins, but is ready to take her fate into her own hands. Her father Richard-- who faked his own death-- has been in contact with her, and wants Bianca to recover King Priam's Treasure, a collection of heavily guarded artifacts stolen by the Russians during World War II. She'd return them to Germany-- if the shadowy forces pursuing her don't bury Bianca for good. -- adapted from publisher info.

Subject(s):

Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Antiquities -- Fiction.

Large type books.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Genre:

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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorClever, cunning and highly skilled, Bianca St. Ives is still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins targeting her. It's kill or be killed, and she's got her finger on the trigger. Then her father loops her in on a job: recover King Priam's Treasure, a collection of priceless artifacts stolen by the Russians during World War II, and return it to Germany. Impossible? Maybe. But for Bianca, there's valuable intel on the line.

Author Notes

Karen Robards was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 24, 1954. She graduated from the University of Kentucky. Her first novel, Island Flame, was published in 1981, when she was 24 years old. Since then, she has written more than 40 contemporary and historical romances including To Love a Man, Sea Fire, One Summer, Irresistible, Whispers at Midnight, Guilty, Shameless, and Sleepwalker. She has received six Silver Pen Awards, two Waldenbooks Wally Awards, one Romantic Times award, a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and has been named to the Romantic Times Romance Writers Hall of Fame. She has written a number of series, including The Banning Sisters and Charlotte Stone. Her title's, The Last Kiss Goodbye and Hush made The New York Times best seller list.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

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. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

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.--Keefe, Karen Copyright 2018 Booklist