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Among Thieves

by David Hosp

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston had several paintings stolen in 1990. The current estimated value of the the still missing paintings is over a half a billion dollars.Scott Finn was a borderline criminal who turned his life around and became a lawyer. An old acquaintance, Devon Malley, asks for his help when he is caught in a high end clothing robbery. Luckily, Malley is in jail when several of his criminal friends are brutally murdered. Malley realizes that he is next. The killer is an IRA operative who he helped get into the Gardner Museum for the theft of the paintings. The return of the paintings for the insurance money never happened. Now the IRA wants the money but does not know where the paintings are hidden. The IRA's man is holding Malley's daughter in exchange for the location of the paintings. Will Finn and Malley be able to outsmart the IRA's killer? Will the paintings be returned to the Gardner Museum?