Ordinary Decent Criminal — Gretta Curran Browne

DUBLIN - 1980 --CRIME DOESN'T PAY -- BUT IT CAN BE A LOT OF FUN! Michael Lynch, suave, sardonic and sexy, strides the Dublin streets as if he owns them â€" the king of the Irish criminal underworld.He dreams up audacious robberies and carries them out with panache. He has only four passions in life: motorcycles, crime, his marriage to a wife he adores, and his love affair with her sister. Utterly confident, Michael decides to turn his career of crime into a work of art, culminating in the ultimate theft of priceless paintings from Dublin's most prestigious art gallery, where he outwits the police, Interpol, and even the IRA.The novel of the Miramax/Little Bird film starring Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Helen Baxendale and Colin Farrell.