The hollow lens

"The Hollow Lens" by Henry Leverage is a thrilling crime novel set in the early 1900s about Chester Fay, a talented safecracker, gets caught up in a risky job to rob the infamous criminal, "The Black Cougar." The story goes deep into the sneaky world of criminals, showing how easy it is to trick people, how much people want to get ahead, and how hard it is to tell right from wrong. Fay teams up with Saidee Laurie, whose father is in jail, to plan the robbery of the Black Cougar's super-protected vault. But as they put their plan into action, Fay finds out Saidee might have her own secret reasons, leading to a turn of events full of lies and sneaky moves, where their personal lives get mixed up in a bigger fight against dishonesty.