Pancardi's pride - Ron Clooney

Out of the darkness and through the rat-infested sewers of Florence; under the ancient treasure houses of the Palazzo Pitti and into one of the strongest bank vaults in the world; the best cracksmen in the business are on the take.They have done the research, analysed the problems and now they are ready to make the biggest score of the century. All they have to do is get away clean. Hidden inside the vault is something history has forgotten; a myth, a legend. But this is no fairy tale, this is for real. The score is every safe-cracker's dream, the big 'A' number one, the last job before retiring into luxurious obscurity - only this dream is about to become a full-blown nightmare of insatiable greed.A woman with beauty and style, but a cold heart, and a professor consumed by lust set out for revenge and wealth beyond their wildest dreams, and the clock is ticking. Italian detectives, the Mafia, former SS officers, a Foreign Office emissary and the Catholic Church; all collide in a twisting tale of murder and deceit during a high speed pursuit across Europe - which culminates in a bloody and startling crescendo.