Venus has been stolen, as has Jupiter’s torso; trains, banks and casinos have been robbed. But this time, there’s a different prize to be plundered: the answers to international exams. Thanks to her excellent marks, Lynn gets into a prestigious secondary school, and with a merit scholarship at that. Everything’s peachy until she starts helping her friend Grace study for her exams and discovers that certain select pupils have access to the test results. When Grace and several other classmates approach her with a business proposition, the die is cast. But Lynn’s greatest challenge of all is yet to come: her classmates would do anything to get into a prestigious American university. Bad Genius takes a true story of cheating on the US college admissions exams and turns it into a gripping heist thriller, while also broaching topics such as class distinction, status issues among young people and marked inequality of opportunity.