Riley Wolfe has surely met his match in
Fool Me Twice, the second novel in Jeff Lindsay’s series about the self-proclaimed world’s greatest thief.
This time, his target is Raphael’s “The Liberation of St Peter.” The priceless work of art is a fresco. A fresco doesn’t hang on a wall. It is part of a wall, the paint embedded in the plaster. The wall in question, part of the Apostolic Palace, is more than 18 feet long. And the palace is located in one of the most heavily guarded places in the world – the Vatican.
In
Just Watch Me (2019), a caper novel on steroids, Wolfe was introduced as a man who gets his kicks committing robberies that no one else would dare to contemplate, his preferred victims the smug super-rich, whom he despises as leeches. To Wolfe, the Vatican job qualifies on both counts, but it is clearly impossible.