In the funniest crime caper ever from Grandmaster Donald Westlake four teams of international thieves race through Paris to steal a kings ransom from the walls of a disassembled castle. When four groups of international heist artists team up to pull off the theft of the century stealing an entire castle and the treasure secreted in its walls what could possibly go wrong Well consider this none of the master thieves speak each others languages...and no one knows precisely where the loot is st