Much like a Ben Mezerich book, many aspects of it do sound a little too perfectly movie-like to be true. The hot female accomplice. The mysterious phone calls t

Much like a Ben Mezerich book, many aspects of it do sound a little too perfectly movie-like to be true. The hot female accomplice. The mysterious phone calls to bring him to Cairo. The dogged policemen pursuing him relentlessly despite skepticism from their superiors. And ahem the heist which involves skydiving onto the roof of a castle in order to move slowly past the motion detectors to steal a diamond.