Heist Society

Heist Society is the sixth novel by author Ally Carter, and was published on February 9, 2010.^[1][2][3] This is her fourth novel for young adults, and her first young-adult novel outside of her The New York Times bestselling Gallagher Girls series. The cover was released on October 21, 2009.^[4] Following on from the trend begun with her previous novel, Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover,^[5] Ally has been posting mini excerpts of the book on her blog and twitter.^{[6][7][8][9][10]} Heist Society was optioned for film by Warner Bros. studios^[11] the studio is planning to age the characters from their teens to their twenties.^[12]Its sequel, Uncommon Criminals, was released June 21, 2011.

Plot summary

Katarina Bishop has been groomed for a life of thieving as long as she can remember. When she turned 15, she conned her way into an elite boarding school. Kat is kicked out of her boarding school when she is blamed for a prank involving the theft and public display of the headmaster's car which was actually perpetrated by her cousin Gabrielle, because Arturo Taccone, someone Hale describes as "a different kind of bad" is missing 5 paintings that are a "private collection". Taccone believes that Kat's dad, Bobby Bishop, stole them. A trip to Paris confirms Kat's belief that her father is innocent of that particular heist, because he has a 24/7 Interpol tail and he was on another job at the time. One boat shop later and they have a name: Visily Romani. Uncle Eddie tells them it's a Chelovek Pseudonima, and forbids them to retrieve the paintings, which is what Kat planned to do. Kat decides not to listen to him and recruits her cousins (and a few friends) to help her. She finds out that they are hidden in the Henley, a maximum security art museum. After a visit to an old friend Kat finds that the paintings are not legally Taccone's but were stolen by the Nazi's. Taccone continues to threaten Kat with photographs of her dad, among other people. She goes to Paris to give a phony story about her dad to the police so that he will get—but not stay—in prison so that he will be out of Taccone's reach. While she's there she picks up a pickpocket, Nick, off the street to help with the Henley job. The teen team decide on a tactic to pull off the job. It works, but there are only 4 paintings. On their way out Kat recognizes Nick, who is the son of the Interpol officer who was trailing her dad and was in the background of all of the pictures of her dad Taccone had taken. She leaves him behind. She is surprised to find that Romani had taken advantage of her and stolen Da Vinci's Angel. She leaves the 4 paintings and a statue in the place she told Taccone they would be, but Interpol waiting for him. The story closes with Kat getting the 5th painting (which, as it turns out, is of her great great grandmother who was one of Monet's close friends) in the mail, along with a note assuring the reader that all the other paintings are being returned to their families, and Kat resolving to become one of the best thieves in history. This book is a mystery teen fiction novel.

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