I had to go back and then read the odd numbered chapters until I got to the point where they were introduced. In fact at one point I was so caught up in the artwork exchange between Mike and Amelia that I read only those chapters in quick succession until I came across three characters who I did not recognize. The connection he finds with Amelia, another one talented in drawing, in their secret illustrated communications makes for one of the more fascinating sequences in the story. Marsh, and the very intriguing relationship that develops between Mike and Marsh's artist daughter Amelia all surpass the action of the various lock picking and safecracking escapades. But the story of Mike committing his first break-in, his punishment at the home of Mr. The other (to me, the more interesting half of the book) is Mike's coming of age and the slow reveal of how he went from being a kid who knew how to pick locks to an artist with a magic touch under the tutelage of the mysterious master safecracker known only as "The Ghost." While there are action scenes galore in the caper portions of the book it all seemed familiar to me. One half of the book is mostly made up of capers that take place in 2000, the year Mike became a career criminal.
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