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The Best Thing You Can Steal

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Meet master thief Gideon Sable and his misfit crew of magical con artists as they take on a daring supernatural heist.

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. A place where magic and miracles are everyday things, and the dark streets are full of very shadowy people. Among them, Gideon Sable.

Gideon Sable specializes in stealing the kind of things that can't normally be stolen. A ghost's clothes. A radio that lets you listen in on what the dead are saying. A photo from a country that never existed. Even his current identity.

Now Gideon has a plan: to break into the most secure treasure house in the world and steal something very valuable from a very nasty man.

To get past security, he'll need a crew who can do the impossible:

The Damned – a seriously scary killer, who's staring down the barrel of eternal damnation.

The Ghost – the undead spirit of an art forger who can pass through any locked door.

The Wild Card – a man who can see beyond the veil of the material world.

And Annie Anybody – the woman who can be anyon. . . and also Gideon's ex-girlfriend.

Together, they're going to pull off the heist of a lifetime. And if they're lucky, they might not die trying . . .

The Best Thing You Can Steal is a fast-paced urban fantasy heist novel from New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green that is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and the C.K. McDonnell's Stranger Times series.

Read all of the Gideon Sable Novels:

The Best Thing You Can Steal

A Matter of Death and Life

What Song the Sirens Sang

Not of This World

Where is Anybody?

|Gideon Sable is a thief and a con man. He specializes in stealing the kind of things that can't normally be stolen. Like a ghost's clothes, or a photo from a country that never existed. Now, Gideon's planning a heist, to steal the only thing that matters from the worst man in the world. So he's going to need a crew who can do the impossible ...
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 18, 2021
      Green (the Ishmael Jones series) gives an urban fantasy twist to Oceans 11 in this lackluster heist story. Londoner Gideon Sable specializes in stealing what can’t be stolen—like a ghost’s clothes, or a man’s luck—from people he feels deserve it. He sets his sights on “the worst man in the world,” Fredric Hammer, when Hammer’s ex-wife hires him to steal Hammer’s time television, a device capable of showing any moment from the past. To pull it off, Gideon must assemble a crack crew, including Annie Anybody, a femme fatale who magically makes machines fall in love with her; The Damned, an Underground-dwelling angel-killer; The Ghost, a spectral art forger; and Johnny Wilde, a Mad Hatter–esque drug inventor whose antics quickly grow irritating. Each of them wants revenge on Hammer for his crimes and eagerly join Gideon’s mission. Despite the clever worldbuilding of Green’s alternate London, the narrative is buried under a hoarder-level collection of noir and urban fantasy clichés, including a dated insistence on defining all the female characters by their relationships to men, and the result unintentionally reads like self-parody. This is only for the most devoted of Green’s fans. Agent: Joshua Bilmes, JABberwocky Literary.

    • Booklist

      April 15, 2021
      Master thief and con man Gideon Sable has a plan. He intends to breach the private vault of Fredric Hammer, noted bad guy, and rob him blind. To do that, he needs to assemble a crack team of professionals. But this is no ordinary team, because this is no ordinary London. This is an alternate London, wherein ghosts and demons and people with special gifts coexist with regular human folk. And Gideon's team consists of former girlfriend Annie Anybody, whose gift is luck; a fellow known as the Damned (because he's, you know, damned); the Ghost, who retains the memory of what it is to be a man; and the Wild Card, who sees all the truths in the world. Each of them has a score to settle with Hammer, and each of them is willing to risk plenty to get revenge. This novel by the author of the terrific Ishmael Jones series is a treat for anyone who relishes the blending of alternate-world fantasy, urban fantasy, and the caper novel. Exciting, witty, and stuffed full of fun.

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