To Catch a Thief is the story of John Robie, an American expatriate much accustomed to life in France. A trained acrobat, he made a living before the war as a notorious jewel thief who came to be known in the newspapers as “Le Chat.” After eventually slipping up and getting caught, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Fate intervenes in the form of the German army, who release all the inmates in a bid to inculcate chaos in the […]
Everybody Wants to Be Le Chat
To Catch a Thief by David Dodge
