The Best Thing You Can Steal

De: Simon R. Green

Narrado por: Gideon Emery

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. A place where magics and horror run free, wonders and miracles are everyday things, and the dark streets are full of very shadowy people....

Gideon Sable is a thief and a con man. He specializes in stealing the kind of things that can't normally be stolen. Like a ghost's clothes, or a photo from a country that never existed. He even stole his current identity. Who was he originally? Now, that would be telling. One thing's for sure though, he's not the bad guy. The people he steals from always have it coming.

Gideon's planning a heist, to steal the only thing that matters from the worst man in the world. To get past his security, he's going to need a crew who can do the impossible...but luckily, he has the right people in mind. The Damned, the Ghost, the Wild Card...and his ex-girlfriend, Annie Anybody. A woman who can be anyone, with the power to make technology fall in love with her. If things go well, they'll all get what they want. And if they're lucky, they might not even die trying.

©2021 Simon Green (P)2021 Recorded Books

Fun story!

As always, the narrator, Gideon Emery knocks it out of the park. It was a fun story, but not as good as the Nightside or Drood series. Wish it would have been a bit longer. It felt more like a novella than a novel.

Very good read. Well worth it.

Another imaginative and entertaining story by Simon R. Green. Like his Tales of the Nightside series, this dark fantasy is unique and very well written.

Amazing performance and story!

Engaging characters, a surprise ending, and a spectacular narration by Gideon Emery who delivered a different voice for each person with flair and aplomb. This story is as good as any of the Nightside stories though I began it with worries it wouldn't be as enjoyable. I'm going to continue this series.

Excellent!

A wonderful book! Perhaps a little short but that is fine. If you like the Night Side you will love this book! If you like Simon R. Green you will love this book! I hope this starts Mr. Green's new series.

Good Story, some flaws

All in all, this was another good story by Simon Green. A bit lighter than his Nightside series, but with a lot of the same good character creation, humor, and story (that ends with some slightly convenient good luck). My biggest issue was the Main Character's "Gideon Sable" identity. For someone who took on a new identity to hide himself/start a new life, it kind if defeats the purpose if 9 out of 10 characters introduced already know who he really is. But! it was still a fun listen and I look forward to the next one.

Nothing special, but a decent listen.

The main character is basically written the same as the MC from another series of his, Ishmael Jones, on uppers and stimulants. personality quirks and equipment aside, the could be the same peraon on different days. by that I mean while their emotions and personalities, tool kits and jobs are entirely different, the way their thinking is written, how the pretention they exhibit, the 'feel', are exactly the same to me. While the story is fine, if ultimately nothing amazing, I couldn't keep thinking that it feels like Green didn't make 'Gideon' feel like a unique character. Did like the worldbuilding though.

Short listen but worth the credit

I’m a huge fan of Simon R Green so my expectations were high. The premise, the cast of characters, along with twist makes this a fav. I hope it’s the start of a series.

A fun story in the world of magic…

I enjoyed listening to this story and grew to like the “crew”! I am new to Simon R. Green books, but have gotten a bit hooked.

So good I recommended to my husband

I really enjoyed this book! All the characters had special powers which they used throughout the tale. No sex, drugs or gang warfare. It is a thief who plans the impossible magical item heist in an impossible vault belonging to an evil man.

Not his best variation of his formula

All of this author’s series that I’ve listened to thus far have the same base formula: gritty urban fantasy featuring a smug, overpowered white Brit, his pistol of a love interest (known best for being as unhinged as she is dangerous and with alliterated names ending in EE like Suzie Shooter, Mad Molly Metcalf, or here, Annie Anybody), and some Big Secret, whether it’s his parentage (Nightside), secrent agent status (Secret Histories), monstrous alter ego (Jeckyll and Hyde), or real name (this series). Oh, and the Big Secret tends to be known by a lot of folks, making it more of a Silly Secret.

It’s not a bad formula, but unless it’s free, I’d pick the best of the lot and stick with only that series. My favorite is the Nightside series (except for the last Nightside book, and for that matter any last book in his various series… which is an odd formula quirk: don’t listen to the last book in this series either; this author tends to self destruct his MCs).

This series is okay, it’s shorter and simpler than the other series, offering more self-contained magical heists with a crew of quirky characters. I found the team to be lesser versions of the Nightside regulars; The Darkness, for example, is a much lesser version of Razor Eddie.

Finally, the sameness is due to having the same narrator in Gideon Emery. He’s great, but using him for both series exacerbates the sameness on top of the similar plots, worlds and character types. I liked the graphic audio format of this series better because it injected new life into the old formula.