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Book Review of The Thieves of Heaven (Michael St. Pierre, Bk 1)

The Thieves of Heaven (Michael St. Pierre, Bk 1)
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Michael St. Pierre is a retired master thief taking on one last scoreknocking over the Vaticanin Doetsch's first novel, an effective papal thriller. When his beloved wife, Mary, is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Michael reluctantly agrees to a burglary for a mysterious German businessman, August Finster. Finster will pay all of Mary's medical expenses if Michael steals a set of keys, one gold and one silver, from the Vatican. Michael pulls off the job, but naturally there's more to it than a simple robbery: Finster has sinister plans for the keys, which hold the power to keep humanity out of heaven forever. With the help of Michael's cop buddy and a Vatican priest, Michael must steal the keys back from Finster and return them to Rome.