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Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
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In this stunning autobiography, former FBI undercover agent Robert K. Wittman details his 20-year career investigating the murky world of art theft. Adopting the false but carefully documented identity of Bob Clay, a shady art dealer with a taste for contraband, Wittman successfully infiltrated domestic and international criminal networks to recover more than $225 million worth of stolen cultural property — items ranging from a Rembrandt self-portrait to an original copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights.
Wittman also came closer than anyone else in the world to unraveling the mysterious 1990 robbery at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. His encounters with criminals closely associated with the theft make for some of the most riveting chapters in the book, providing new and surprising information about the heist and the probable whereabouts of the Gardner's missing Rembrandt and Vermeer...
The rest of my review is available online here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html...
Wittman also came closer than anyone else in the world to unraveling the mysterious 1990 robbery at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. His encounters with criminals closely associated with the theft make for some of the most riveting chapters in the book, providing new and surprising information about the heist and the probable whereabouts of the Gardner's missing Rembrandt and Vermeer...
The rest of my review is available online here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html...
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Apr 18, 2010 05:48AM
This sounds, well... priceless. I've put it on my list (paper, not electronic). Thanks!
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Dvora wrote: "This sounds, well... priceless. I've put it on my list (paper, not electronic). Thanks!"I received a galley copy of this through work. The book will be officially published, I think, on June 1. I'm about halfway through and really loving it--just fantastic stuff. Will check in when I finish!
