Night Thief. Adventures in Amsterdam

Charlie Howard is a popular (in broad circles) the author of detective novels. And he is a popular (in narrow circles) a professional thief that performs only serious orders. When a mysterious American suggests Charlie to steal two simple figurines for him in Amsterdam, Howard is not immediately, but agrees, realizing that this order lies something.
And there really lies a lot of things: the old story about the disappearance of diamonds, the bloody murder of a mysterious American, huge money, hunting for Charlie himself, gangsters, police ...
A detector-thief turns into a detective thief. At the same time, it is most worried about three things: will it be able to get those biggest money? Will he be able to defend his kind name of the writer? And finally, will he leave a dead end, in which his last started, not yet add-written romance?