The Manhattan Job: Spider Heist Thrillers, Book 3

The Manhattan Job: Spider Heist Thrillers, Book 3 by Jason Kasper

The skysafe heist crew goes to retrieve the some tapes that would incriminate the corrupt FBI agent, Jim. They carry out the operation to get them out of a hidden safe deposit box, but when they find them, the tapes are missing. Another criminal has them and will be auctioning them off to the highest bidder. Jim is now running for congress, so he and his mentor want to make sure they don't fall in the wrong hands. There is a bidding war, but Jim gets them. The heist crew decides they will simply try to pick Jim's pocket before he can destroy them. However, things don't go well on the first attempt and Jim is on to them. For the next try, he wants to do the drop at a fundraising dinner attended by the president. A standard heist won't work. So, they find an attendee that looks like one of the crew and find a way to call him out of the dinner (with some market manipulation). Then the crew can pick the ticket from his pocket and go in. That plan falls apart when the attendee gets in trouble with law and dropped from the guest list. They end up relying on "gut" and just cage out the streets going towards the dinner. Blair notices different footwear and chases after the suspect. They have a daring chasing and end up meeting up. This person ends up being a heist crew of one and they have mutual respect for each other. The crew does manage to get the tapes, mail them back too themselves and then incriminate Jim. But, now they have his mentor to go for. The action is nonstop. The heists are elaborate, but like the real world, they never go 100% to plan.