Chapter 10

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Pov's Rusty

We land, take our backpack and, while we wait for the others, we head to book hotel rooms for the whole group near Lake Como. Unfortunately, we will meet with Yen in Rome.

As soon as they arrive we gather in the largest suite and Danny, Blair and myself start updating those who were not at the meeting with LeMarc.

Danny: "So. NightFox has a name, François Toulour: Baron François Toulour. His father was a French industrialist, his mother an Italian nobleman. He never knew her, but he inherited the title. The bad news is that he's rich, bored and talented. The bad news is that he was LeMarc's student, as Blair said."

Virgil: "Well, we're done for."

Turk: "No, we're not done for. There is only one and he is French."

Basher: "Yes, before we are impressed by this gentleman, let's hear what he really did!"

Blair: "It started in the early 1990s: the Bank of Geneva, the Danish Treasury, the Bank of Italy, the AMC Amro Bank, the Diamond Exchange in Brussels, the one in Antwerp."

Linus: "Brake, brake. Everyone in the 90s?"

Danny: "Only until '96."

Linus: "Seriously?"

Blair: "In '97 he went through an artistic phase. It hit the Tate in London, the Louvre in Paris, twice, and the Prado."

Linus: "Stop. No, no, the Prado museum in '97? That was Moretti, everyone knows it."

Blair: "He's Moretti! It is one of his many names. Ok, for the sake of time I'll move on to my favorite heist: in 2002 he stole a yacht, a 60 meter one belonging to the King of Morocco. Vanished into thin air. The crew resurfaced a few days later in a lifeboat: they remembered nothing."

Turk: "But how do you hide a 60 meter?"

Danny: "Even though the king knows, he doesn't say. He got it back a month later. Now he plays tennis with Toulour every weekend."

Linus: "We're in deep trouble, aren't we?"

Rusty: "Affirmative."

Linus: "So what do we do?"

Danny: "Let's answer."

Linus: "Shall we answer? As?"

Danny: "Smart."

Virgil: "That is?"

Blair: "By stealing works that he himself stole during his artistic phase and which he keeps in his villa here on Lake Como. That's why we're here."

Rusty: "And we're going to do it today."


Pov's Blair

Once we've finished talking we get ready and strike immediately even if it's broad daylight, as we know very well that he's still sleeping having stayed up late the night before.

A few hours after our friends stole those works of art, my father and I visit François Toulour.

NightFox: "Mr. Ocean. Ms. Ocean."

Danny: "You broke rule number one and that has consequences."

NightFox: "Oh, you're talking about my paintings, I guess. Don't worry. In five days you will be dead and I will have my paintings back."

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