Informationen zum Autor Kayvion Lewis Klappentext In this cinematic heist thriller, where a cutthroat competition brings together the world's best thieves, one contestant is playing for the highest stakes of allher mother's life. A propulsive, high-octane thriller that kept me guessing until the very end.Alex Aster, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lightlark Fans of Ocean's Eleven will enjoy Kayvion Lewis's exhilarating [thriller]. PopSugar The Gambit invites you to join . . . are you game? A Quest can't trust anyone in this worldexcept for a Quest . At least that's what's been drilled into seventeen-year-old Rosalyn Quest since practically birth. And for good reasonRoss is part of a legendary family of thieves who have built their fortunes collecting ill-gotten gains by pulling the ultimate heists. But Ross is tired of it. She wants more out of life, but on the night she plans her escape, her mother is kidnapped. Ross should have known payback would come sooner or later. In a desperate bid to save her mother, Ross enters the Thieves' Gambit, a high-stakes competition for the world's best up-and-coming thieves, where the winner is granted one wishfor anything you want. Ross only wants to save her mother's life, and she's playing to win. But in a globetrotting game full of dangerous, escalating trials where killing isn't exactly off-limits, Ross must use all her skills to outsmart her cunning and cutthroat competitors, including her childhood nemesis and a handsome, smooth-talking boy who might also be making a play for her heart. Leseprobe Curiously, when plugged into the computer in 2310, the flash drive asked if I wanted to copy the hard drive. I tapped yes, but since this laptop didn't have a c-port, I didn't get to snoop on what I was copying. I spent the loading time digging through the file from the 2410 laptop some more on my phone. I scrolled through links like Clients , Contacts , Numbers , and Master List . I found myself opening the phone number one, and up popped a spreadsheet with a whopping five thousand entries. Only a hundred lines down, I was finding names with addenda like (vice president) and (CEO) behind them. Using the search box, I typed in Quest . My name and cell number, along with Mom's and Auntie's, were there. Thankfully, there wasn't anything like (thief) behind ours. They were incriminatingly italicized, though, so maybe it was implied. I tapped my chin for a few seconds before typing in another number. All of Count's texts about penalty games had made me forcibly memorize it. Lo and behold, there was a result. Aurélie Dubois. So she did have a real name, a very French real name. Interesting. I exported it all into my fam's black box. Surely Count was going to pop up and tell me to stop? She didn't. I deleted the original file from my home screen undetected. With the actual flash drive done loading, I returned the laptop to its safe and got ready to make the jump down to 2210. No lights came on when I dropped the marble again, so after tossing my heels, I bit down on my clutch for a third time and made the last swing onto the balcony. Landing in a crouch, I flipped my braids back. My updo was a mess by now. Ten minutes left on the countdown. This was going to be tight. I scooped up my shoes, about to slip them back on and hightail it out, but the curtain by the balcony door rustled, as if there were a breeze. Only the curtains were behind the glass, and the door was shut. Someone was inside, waiting with the lights off. I had a feeling I knew who it was. I rushed to throw my heels down to the next floor and slip over the railing as the door flew open. Taiyo was like lightning. I unsnapped the weight on my meteor bracelet, but with a t...

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Kayvion Lewis

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**In this cinematic heist thriller, where a cutthroat competition brings together the world’s best thieves, one contestant is playing for the highest stakes of all—her mother’s life.

“A propulsive, high-octane thriller that kept me guessing until the very end.”—Alex Aster, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lightlark

“Fans of Ocean's Eleven will enjoy Kayvion Lewis’s exhilarating [thriller].”—PopSugar
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The Gambit invites you to join . . . are you game?

A Quest can’t trust anyone in this world—except for a Quest. At least that’s what’s been drilled into seventeen-year-old Rosalyn Quest since practically birth. And for good reason—Ross is part of a legendary family of thieves who have built their fortunes collecting ill-gotten gains by pulling the ultimate heists. But Ross is tired of it. She wants more out of life, but on the night she plans her escape, her mother is kidnapped. Ross should have known payback would come sooner or later.

In a desperate bid to save her mother, Ross enters the Thieves’ Gambit, a high-stakes competition for the world’s best up-and-coming thieves, where the winner is granted one wish—for anything you want.

Ross only wants to save her mother’s life, and she’s playing to win. But in a globetrotting game full of dangerous, escalating trials where killing isn’t exactly off-limits, Ross must use all her skills to outsmart her cunning and cutthroat competitors, including her childhood nemesis and a handsome, smooth-talking boy who might also be making a play for her heart.