The Moscow Deception--An International Spy Thriller

April 23, 2018
In bestseller Robard’s exciting follow-up to 2017’s The Ultimatum, master thief Bianca St. Ives has recently discovered an explosive secret about herself, and she’s being hunted by those who are desperate to keep that secret contained. When she learns that a $1 million contract is out on her life, her adoptive father, Mason Thayer, tells her that he can get the contract called off if she steals King Priam’s Treasure—priceless artifacts thought to have belonged to Helen of Troy—right out from under Vladimir Putin’s nose. With the help of her friend, hacker extraordinaire Miles Davis “Doc” Ziegler, Bianca just may pull it off. The delightful, capable, and frequently funny Bianca is an intoxicating combo of Stephanie Plum and James Bond, and her globe-trotting quest takes her from the glittering casinos of Macau all the way to Moscow, paving the way to a (literally) explosive finale. Dodging bullets and fists are all in a day’s work for Bianca, and, while her adventures may stretch credulity, readers will likely be having too much fun to care. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media.

May 1, 2018
In this follow-up to The Ultimatum (2017), security expert Bianca St. Ives must steal a heavily guarded European treasure in order to save her own life. As a baby, Bianca was stolen from the lab where she and 40 other infants, bred to have superhuman powers, were being kept. She alone survived and was raised by the man who rescued her and her biological mother. Now the government will stop at nothing to erase all evidence of their experiment, and Bianca has a bounty on her head. So she's off to the casinos of Macau to rendezvous with the only man who can help her. But first she has to wriggle out of the clutches of a sexy agent who claims he's on her side. From the custom-weapon garter belt to the museum-hacking circus troupe, this delightfully over-the-top thriller is a mile-a-minute adventure. Fans of improbable spy fiction will eat it up.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)