Viktor ignored her. “We go in on a Thursday. The restorer’s visit is scheduled for ten in the morning. By noon, the Caravaggio will be in a custom-built case, disguised as a shipment of medical supplies, heading for the Swiss border. The painting will cross into France by midnight. From there, it flies private to Riyadh.”
She was not supposed to be there. The protocol was clear: the restorer worked alone. But she held a silver tray with an espresso cup, and her eyes were fixed on the painting on the wall—the forgery—and then on the real Caravaggio now hidden in the case at Novak’s feet.
Signora Ricci laughed and waved him through.
Lina, who had been listening from the car, appeared in the warehouse doorway. Her face was pale.
He had the team. Lina, his ex-wife, who could disable any alarm system ever built and who still hated him enough to do the job perfectly. Marcus, a forger from Cape Town who could replicate a museum guard’s retina in resin. And Novak, the muscle—a former Serbian special forces operative who had, on their last job, broken a man’s arm for reaching toward a panic button and then apologized for the mess.
“Case is closed,” he said into his mic. “Heading out.”
Marcus leaned forward. “And the restorer?”
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Viktor ignored her. “We go in on a Thursday. The restorer’s visit is scheduled for ten in the morning. By noon, the Caravaggio will be in a custom-built case, disguised as a shipment of medical supplies, heading for the Swiss border. The painting will cross into France by midnight. From there, it flies private to Riyadh.”
She was not supposed to be there. The protocol was clear: the restorer worked alone. But she held a silver tray with an espresso cup, and her eyes were fixed on the painting on the wall—the forgery—and then on the real Caravaggio now hidden in the case at Novak’s feet. grand theft
Signora Ricci laughed and waved him through. Viktor ignored her
Lina, who had been listening from the car, appeared in the warehouse doorway. Her face was pale. By noon, the Caravaggio will be in a
He had the team. Lina, his ex-wife, who could disable any alarm system ever built and who still hated him enough to do the job perfectly. Marcus, a forger from Cape Town who could replicate a museum guard’s retina in resin. And Novak, the muscle—a former Serbian special forces operative who had, on their last job, broken a man’s arm for reaching toward a panic button and then apologized for the mess.
“Case is closed,” he said into his mic. “Heading out.”
Marcus leaned forward. “And the restorer?”