Heist Thriller
David Morgan: The Origin
by Steven
He steals for good.
David Morgan wears a black hat, carries a single blank white card, and robs only the people who have stolen from everyone else. Nobody gets hurt. Nothing is taken from ordinary families. Whatever he takes goes back.
With a retired telephone supervisor, a nervous security expert, a costume forger and a driver who speaks five languages, he lifts a diamond in Lisbon, a key in Istanbul and a fortune from a shipping crook in Rotterdam. But every job he is sent, by a mysterious archivist who seals dossiers in green wax, leads closer to the men who destroyed his family twenty-five years ago.
Book One of three.
Contains some violence and tense scenes. Book One of three.
26 sections · about 31,000 words · about 2 hours to read
Contents
- PrologueEleven Minutes Early3 min
- Part One — The First Illusion
- Chapter 1The Man Who Wasn't There7 min
- Chapter 2The Thief Who Stole Nothing7 min
- Chapter 3What the Archivist Sent5 min
- Chapter 4The Man Who Reads Rooms5 min
- Chapter 5The Receiving Line6 min
- Chapter 6Six Hundred Handshakes7 min
- Part Two — The Game
- Chapter 7The Irregular Auditor5 min
- Chapter 8The Shell Game6 min
- Chapter 9Lane Six6 min
- Chapter 10The Elephant in the Props Cupboard5 min
- Chapter 11A Door That Opens Two Ways5 min
- Chapter 12The Unpleasant Way7 min
- Part Three — The Hunter
- Chapter 13Walnut Cake5 min
- Chapter 14Eleven Across6 min
- Chapter 15Twenty-Two Cards5 min
- Chapter 16The Order of Things5 min
- Chapter 17Three Stories5 min
- Chapter 18The Front Room5 min
- Part Four — The Final Trick
- Chapter 19Terms5 min
- Chapter 20The Sunday Calls5 min
- Chapter 21The Front Door5 min
- Chapter 22The Seventh Chair6 min
- Chapter 23Which Hand6 min
- Chapter 24The Last Card6 min
- EpilogueRue Mouffetard6 min