In the StoryThe Heist That Already Failed
The plan has been seized. Mara’s memory is still in demand. After the events of the first book, the depot has changed its procedures and closed its old access points. What Mara Lenoir remembers is now aging faster than the plans. Yet police, associates, and other interested parties keep searching for what she might still know.
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Van den Broeck had placed it on a rolling table between a copy of the plan seized in Berchem and a white envelope Mara had signed eight days earlier. The stopwatch screen remained black. Under plastic, the plan showed a corridor half of whose dimensions had now been crossed out by the depot itself. Since the alert, Vandenberg had changed procedures, relocated two checkpoints, and sealed a maintenance exit. The plan for a heist that had never happened was aging faster than an architect’s drawing.Read the excerpt ↗