The Chocolate Thieves

by Ian Hudson

The Chocolate Thieves are going to steal the rarest and most valuable chocolate in the world.

A rare fruiting cocoa tree at Kew Gardens, the launch of That Midas Taste - the most exclusive jewel encrusted chocolates in the world and all the world’s cocoa trees facing extinction from disease, climate change and our global addiction to chocolate - it is time for The Chocolate Thieves to become legends.

And they are not going to let anyone get in their way - especially the tenacious DS Silky tasked with ending their legacy of crime on the 100th anniversary of their great-grandfather’s first chocolate heist.

322 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Ian Hudson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderfully inventive story full of roguish charm. Satirically told in three parts The Chocolate Thieves introduces us to an ensemble of eccentric characters indulging in chocolate and art crime, The Chocolate Apocalypse takes us into the world of illegal cocoa smuggling - the backdrop to the story being the riotous dystopian landscape of a city without chocolate. And concludes with The Last Chocolate Trees where our heroes set out to resurrect chocolate for the people of the world - so they can steal it again. It really is a scintillating satire on chocolate addiction and on the attitude and behaviour of contemporary society. And, yes, it really is time that every chocolate craving, tingling, taste bud in the world knew the name The Chocolate Thieves.