How To
Get Caught

The Book

Lira Voss is the smartest person alive. She has spent fourteen years pretending otherwise.

On Elysara, the weather is emotionally supportive, the cows cannot be tipped, and a supercomputer is sealed under every citizen's skin at birth. It is a planet engineered for perfect harmony. Lira has been bored inside it her entire life.

So she steals four point eight billion credits with a rounding error, buys a face that isn't hers, and runs.

Nine minutes later it is all gone — every credit of it — taken by a very polite stranger behind a blue door.

Which leaves exactly one person who could teach her to do this properly: The Mirage, the cleanest thief who ever lived. And the only people who ever got close to him are locked inside a maximum-security prison on the far side of the galaxy.

So Lira doesn't need to break out of anywhere. She needs to get in.