Prince of Thieves

Abridged
Author: Chuck Hogan
Narrator: Donnie Wahlberg
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date: August 2004
Length: 6 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 4/5
Formats:
  • CD
  • WMA

Overview

Charlestown, a blue-collar Boston neighborhood, produces more bank robbers and armored car thieves than any other square mile in the world. In this gripping thriller, Claire Keesey, the branch manager for a Boston bank, is taken hostage during a robbery. She is released, but Doug MacRay, the brains behind the tough, tight-knit crew of thieves, can't get her out of his mind. Tracking her down without his mask and gun, Doug introduces himself. As soon as he and Claire meet, their mutual attraction is undeniable -- as are the risks of a relationship.

Meanwhile, Doug's crew pulls off another audacious, meticulously planned job. Frustrated by their ingenuity and brazen ambition, FBI Agent Adam Frawley zeroes in on Doug and his pals. Against his own better judgment, he, too, develops more than a professional interest in Claire.

Under pressure from Frawley's ever-closer investigation, Doug imagines a life for himself away from bank robberies and Charlestown. But before that can happen, the crew learns that there may be a way to rob Boston's venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park. It's a magnificently dangerous and utterlyirresistible opportunity -- yet for Doug, pursuing his former hostage may be the most dangerous act of all...

Chuck Hogan's brash tale of four men -- thieves, rivals, friends -- being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent, and the woman who may destroy them all, is a spectacular, stylish, heart-pounding thriller.

Reviews (1)

Prince of Thieves

Written by Tom from Lafayette on January 26th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Don't miss this one. The writer clearly knows the locale and the nature of the people that live there. Donnie Wahlberg is a first class narrator. It keeps your attention all the way through. Character developments is first rate. What more can I say........