Description

Eli Gottlieb’s prior story, Now You See Him, was recommended by writers as “irresistible … moving” (Ny Times Book Review), “a triumph…of fictional suspense” (L A Times), and “gorgeous” (USA Today). With The Thief, he returns with a driving, compulsively readable book that probes the wellsprings of individual devotion and greed beset by attraction. Gottlieb presents the secret of the charming Margot, a journalist who morphs—with spectacular panache—from a higher-attaining wealthy twentysomething right into a grifter producing her living preying on the weaknesses of men. Having analyzed the age-old Chinese art of face reading, she can also be in a position to arrange and becomes a specialist at reading people her identity and search with uncanny ability to suit any interpersonal condition.