01993cam a2200361 4500 791323866 TxAuBib 20230505120000.0 180214s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017486332 9780778330707 hardcover 0778330702 hardcover TxAuBib Robards, Karen, author. The Ultimatum / Karen Robards. 2023. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2017] ©2017. 330 pages ; 25 cm. Guardian series, The ; 1 "Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will--Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed the master. She's known as the Guardian. Running a multinational firm with her father, she makes a living swindling con men out of money they stole--and she's damn good at it. She does things on her own terms. But her latest gig had a little hiccup--if you count two hundred million dollars and top secret government documents going missing as little. Her father also died on the mission. The thing is, the US government doesn't believe he's really dead."-- From the publisher. 20230505. Swindlers and swindling Fiction. Private security services Fiction. Private security services. Swindlers and swindling. Fiction. Suspense fiction. Suspense fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) The Guardian series ; 1. TXCAN