Priceless how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures
Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offering a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black mark...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offering a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the stories behind his recoveries of priceless art and antiquities: the golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king; the Rodin sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement; the rare Civil War battle flag carried into battle by one of the nation's first African-American regiments. The art thieves and scammers he caught run the gamut from rich to poor, smart to foolish, organized criminals to desperate loners. Wittman has saved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art and antiquities, but he considers them all equally priceless.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780307461476 0307461475 |
| Author Notes: | JOHN SHIFFMANis an investigative reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer . He has won numerous writing awards and was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. |
