As always, a thank-you to my wonderful literary agent, Gill Coleridge, and all at Rogers, Coleridge and White, and to my U.S. literary agent, Esther Newberg. And my thanks to Random House for their terrific support and constant encouragement, especially from Susanna Porter, her assistant, Evelyn O’Hara, and Benjamin Dreyer.
A special thanks to Alison Summers for anchoring my book as it crossed the Atlantic, and also to my film and television agent and good friend Peter Benedek at the United Talent Agency.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lynda La Plante is best known for her television series Prime Suspect, and more recently for Bella Mafia, the miniseries based on her novel of the same name. Her scriptwriting has won an Emmy Award for the best drama serial, several BAFTA awards, and the Edgar Allan Poe Writers Award. She is the author of numerous successful thrillers, including Cold Shoulder, Cold Blood, Cold Heart, Entwined, and Bella Mafia.
Also by Lynda La Plante
Bella Mafia
Entwined
Cold Shoulder
Cold Blood
Cold Heart
Prime Suspect
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events,
locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2004 by Lynda La Plante
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House
Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously
in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
A significantly different edition of this book was published in the United Kingdom under
the title Royal Flush by Macmillan London, copyright © 2002 by Lynda La Plante.
This work was originally published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan in 2002.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
La Plante, Lynda.
Royal Heist : a novel / Lynda La Plante.
p. cm.
1. Koh-i-noor (Diamond)—Fiction. 2. Jewel thieves—Fiction. 3. England—Fiction.
I. Title.
PR6062.A65R69 2003
823’.914—dc22 2003058519
Random House website address: www.atrandom.com
eISBN: 978-1-58836-383-1
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