Bangladesh, Dec. 3 -- Riley Wolfe gets his kicks executing spectacular robberies that no one else would even contemplate. His victims are always the super-rich, whom he despises as "smug, do-nothing, self-loving leeches."

This anti-hero makes his debut in "Just Watch Me," a supremely entertaining new thriller by Jeff Lindsay that promises to be the first of a series.

The plot combines the intricacies of caper movies such as "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "To Catch a Thief" with the creepy sensibility of the hit TV show "Dexter." The latter is no surprise since the show was inspired by Lindsay's eight novels featuring Dexter Morgan, a serial killer who preyed only upon other serial killers. Unlike Dexter, Wolfe takes no pleasure in murder...