Gary Kriss: July 2010 Archives

Richard Doetsch spent most of his adult life selling buildings.

Then he started breaking into them.

Not just any buildings. Only the best, like the Vatican and the Kremlin.

And now he's headed for prison.

Because, with apologies to Willie Sutton, that's where the readers are.

Or that's where they'll become the end of this month when Doetsch's new thriller The Thieves of Darkness is released. It's the third book in a series featuring thief extraordinaire Michael St. Pierre, now retired, although circumstances keep dragging him back.

First, in The Thieves of Heaven, Doetsch's 2006 debut novel, which introduced St. Pierre, it was an unsuccessful attempt to save his cancer-ridden wife. Then, in The Thieves of Faith, it was a commitment to fulfill a dying man's last wish. And now, in The Thieves of Darkness, its rescuing his friend, a priest being held in a foreign prison and set to be executed. And in each of the novels, the inciting incident sets in motion a ball of high stake international intrigue.