Second Pocket First

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>He dresses like a French novel. He steals like a punchline. He is absolutely magnificent at looking the part and absolutely terrible at everything else. </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Issey is the world's most stylishly dressed bad thief. Double veal gloves a nailhead scarf and enough confidence to make failure look intentional. When his crew boots him ahead of a big job he retreats to his Vermont hometown ostensibly to sort out family business. What he finds instead is unlocked doors deserving targets and a family in more pieces than he bargained for. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But between charming locals dodging a very patient police sergeant and engineering a romantic reconciliation nobody asked for Issey discovers that giving things back might be his greatest con yet. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As the pieces of his small accidental life in Vermont begin clicking into place something arrives to knock them all sideways. And the last person he should have trusted was the one he never thought to question. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Part caper part family comedy and entirely the work of a man who has no idea what he is doing but looks incredible doing it this is a story about taking things apart and wondering what is left when you give it all back. He spent his whole life stealing things. Turns out the hardest thing to keep was everything he never meant to find.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Can a man who has taken everything finally get away with something that actually matters?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Get your copy today before the price changes.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>• Waterbury Vermont's 2026 One Town One Book Selection </strong></p>