Vita arrives determined to reclaim her family home acquired by the dramatically fearful character Sorrotore, a ‘business’ man with shady and dangerous connections.
This isn’t a sentimental look at underclass life, but a warts and all portrayal that’s all the better for it.The Good Thieves is a fast-paced heist adventure about Vita Marlowe, a girl who comes with her mother to New York to stay with her grieving grandfather. Gritty is hardly the word – and when the central pairing pick the wrong woman to steal from their already troubled lives suddenly get a whole lot worse.ĭaniel Finn brilliantly creates a dangerous but beguiling world that’s corrupt to the core.Īn edge-of-the-seat, page-turning thriller, the tension never lets up for a moment, but still the author manages to pack a deep humanity in.īaz is our eyes and ears in this world and she’s a likeable character with a basic goodness to her but with a well-honed talent for duplicity. “Twso Good Thieves” is a pretty dark story for youngsters.
The thieves know if they get caught the best they can expect is a one-way ticket to the notorious Castle Prison.īaz, though, has also seen a boy shot in the back in broad daylight, running from the police in a city railway station – and nobody batting an eyelid over it.īoss lady Fay has a frightening capacity for dropping her young charges like hot stones the moment she fears they have become a liability.Īnd above her there is crime boss Senor Moro whose ruthless henchmen neutralise those deemed to have stepped out of line. This is not a world where compassion gets much of a look in. There are many dangers to be faced along the way though. Just children, circumstance has made them streetwise far beyond their years, with Demi in particular a strutting pre-teen with the sort of smart mouth you would normally expect to belong to somebody considerably older.Īlmost everyone we meet in this underworld, in fact, is terribly aged and Baz – despite the name she’s a girl – is the only who truly seems to believe there’s a better life out there. IN an unnamed but teeming South American city Demi and Baz are the very best at what they do – snatching wallets and purses from the complacent rich, delivering the takings to den mother Fay and dreaming of a way out of their slum home at some unspecified future time.
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