Publisher's Synopsis
After hundreds of heists with loot amounting close to $US1 billion, the elusive shadowy network of brazen robbers known as the Pink Panthers terrorized the global jewelry industry, committing outrageous crimes fitting a Hollywood movie script.
Who are the real Pink Panthers? Read the Unbelievable True Story of the Infamous Pink Panthers Gang of Diamond Thieves. A gripping, enthralling, and thought-provoking novel inspired by the true story of a group of war veterans-turned-thieves who pulled off the most spectacular heists of all time. PINK PANTHERS: The Greatest Thieves is a crime thriller novel in the tradition of epic crime sagas such as The Godfather, The Sopranos, and Ocean's Eleven. Perfect if you like true-crime stories, heist adventures, and complex characters, then you'll love this action-packed tale which has it all, shocking family, war and political drama, sweeping dialogue, dark humor, well-placed twists and flashbacks, and sufficient action and suspense to keep you constantly engaged. The mystery thriller that will forever change the way you look at criminal cartels. After the thieving team of the Pink Panthers successfully carried out three large diamond robberies in Antwerp, London, and Tokyo, they are recruiting an elegant logistics expert and a top make-up artist to prepare for the robbery at the DiamondBiennale in Paris. After successfully completing the job in Paris, they carry out two more spectacular robberies together, at the Amsterdam airport and in Saint Tropez, after which discord and attrition occur within the gang over the division of the loot. If there is no reconciliation, the rest of the gang is forced to forgather and train a new crew for another robbery, this time in Dubai. Will they manage to complete their last task before the final disintegration? A fast-paced, riveting thriller based on incredible real-life events, THE GREATEST THIEVES will take hold of you and not let you go until the final page has been turned. Enjoy reading your copy now. AUTHOR'S NOTE The phenomenon of the Pink Panthers, this elusive shadowy network of brazen robbers gang, originating from my homeland, was actual as they terrorized the global jewelry industry with hundreds of heists in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia with the prey of about $1 billion, targetting the world's most luxurious jewelry stores. With their imaginative audacity in carrying out outrageous crimes fitting for a Hollywood movie script, they intrigued the world including myself - but who are the real Pink Panthers? Nobody ever really answered that question. So, I set out for a personal investigative crusade and presented all the findings in my book "PINK PANTHERS: The Greatest Thieves". By personalizing the functioning of criminal cartels, the horror of war, the dissolving of country and family, and showing the results of these bold events have on individuals is the general theme I tried to dive into this novel. Humanizing and both warmly and humorously portraying its main characters, without relieving them from responsibility, the novel offers an analytical portrait of people who had different plans for life and their future, which failed due to wars, a devastated economy, corruption, nepotism, and societal moral collapse. This novel is the first part of a trilogy that deals with the socio-historical context of the emergence of the famous and powerful international robber group, Pink Panthers, created in the whirlwind of war during the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. The background shows the entire process of the diamond business, how diamonds come to jewelry stores, from relentless exploitation of rich deposits of poor third-world countries and inciting bloody civil wars in them, to intertwining of the diamond business with drug cartels, human trafficking, interests of banks, corporate and military-industrial magnates and diplomatic-political machination