24 hours to stop the crime of the centuryThe race against time is about to begin-THE TOWER OF LONDON-Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armoury when they transport the Crown Jewels across London.SCOTLAND YARD-For four years, Chief Superindendent William Warwick - together with his second-in-command Inspector Ross Hogan - has been in charge of the operation. And for four years it-s run like clockwork.THE HEIST-But this year, everything is about to change. Because master criminal Miles Faulkner has set his heart on pulling off the most outrageous theft in history - and with a man on the inside, the odds are in his favour.Unless Warwick and Hogan can stop him before it-s too late-An unputdownable new thriller from the master storyteller-Probably the greatest storyteller of our age-Mail on Sunday-If there were a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would wi