![]() ![]() His “heist crew” couldn’t be more promising: his sister Irene (Duke, public policy) as con artist his best friend Daniel (med school-bound UCLA senior) as thief his Tinder-hookup Alex (ex-MIT, gone to Google) as hacker Irene’s roommate Lily (Duke, mechanical engineering) as getaway driver. Harvard art-history senior Will gets tapped as leader. In a Beijing penthouse, five Chinese American college students (one’s actually a dropout) get hired by China’s youngest billionaire to retrieve the bronzes for a reward of $50-million. Li’s fascinating albeit uneven debut zeros in on one treasure, China’s Old Summer Palace fountain comprised of the Chinese zodiac’s dozen animals. ![]() Long before the first alarms are triggered here, renowned museums have been legal showcases for artful plunder: Nefertiti’s Bust in Berlin’s Neues Museum, the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, the Koh-i-Noor in the Tower of London. ![]()
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