Uptown Thief, Aya De Leon
Uptown Thief, Aya De Leon
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Uptown Thief

Author: Aya De Leon

Narrator: Patricia R. Floyd

Unabridged: 13 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/28/2017


Synopsis

In this sexy, heart-stopping tale, one smart, sizzling mami robs the rich and protects the exploited-until one heist too many puts everything at stake. . . Marisol Rivera barely survived being abused with nowhere to turn. So there's nothing she won't do to keep her Lower East Side women's health clinic open and give disadvantaged women new lives. Running an exclusive escort service for New York City's rich and powerful 1 percent is the perfect way to bankroll her business-not to mention the perfect cover for robbing corrupt CEOs. And when times get even tougher, pulling a heist on a mega-billionaire will secure the clinic's future-and her gorgeous crew's-for good. . . There's just one problem: Marisol didn't anticipate bad news even more dangerous than her curves. A seductive ex-cop who's too close for comfort, and a powerful thug with a score to settle, are turning Marisol's precise planning and seductive fail-safes into insidious traps. Now this beautiful modern-day Robin Hood will have to play some lethal wild cards without rules or limits to save those she loves-and live to steal another day. . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on May 17, 2016

Uptown Thief takes you on a wild ride, but not through the countryside you're expecting, and that's what makes it great. Marisol is a former sex worker who runs a free clinic for sex workers in Manhattan. But the economy is tight and it's squeezing her fundraising, so she also runs an escort service......more

Goodreads review by victoria.p on November 01, 2016

Probably really 3.25 stars since the writing was only okay, but this has so many things going for it - former sex worker sets up women's health clinic for sex workers and other underserved populations, and then spends the whole book hustling (i.e., running heists on asshole millionaires) to make up......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on October 30, 2017

A fellow Rioter had recommended this and I’m so glad he did. This is a mashup crime novel and romance. It isn’t a puzzle mystery type book, instead you follow criminals. But not your everyday criminals, these are women who are running a women’s health clinic in NY for underprivileged women. But you......more

Goodreads review by Shanti on December 13, 2016

Enjoyed the feminist premise and the Lower East Side setting. I've seen that neighborhood gentrify and was glad to hear about it through these voices. The read would have been even more fun if the writing were a little less clunky and characters weren't reduced to their body types.......more

Goodreads review by Charlie Marie on January 10, 2021

I want a million more books with positive sex work representation, please and thank you! This book has a badass POC businesswomen who uses a side business as the Madam of a rad escort agency to fund her clinic serving sex workers and other marginalized women- oh yeah, and also she and her team also p......more