In any robbery, the main thing is a good plan. And no one knows that better than Dortmunder, because he is exactly the one who will have to come up with his next ingenious plan to steal a magnificent emerald.
The only problem is this: the emerald seems to be cursed, and one single plan simply won’t be enough. Maybe, if Dortmunder and his team knew how much work they would end up having to do, they would have refused right away—but at the beginning everything looked far too tempting.