Stealing Rembrandts

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A journey deep inside the mysterious and dangerous world of art theft
"Written like a detective novel, art security expert Anthony Amore takes the reader on a rollicking ride through the high-stakes world of the thieves who steal these treasures and the investigators who work to get them back a fast-paced and engrossing exposé of the shady underbelly of the art world."
—Robert K. Wittman, New York Times bestselling author of Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, annually exceeding S6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors. Authors Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major twentieth-century heists of works by the Dutch Master. In a thrilling tour of thefts around the world—from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio—the authors track daring entries into and escapes from the world's most renowned museums and investigate robbers who... Tovább

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A journey deep inside the mysterious and dangerous world of art theft
"Written like a detective novel, art security expert Anthony Amore takes the reader on a rollicking ride through the high-stakes world of the thieves who steal these treasures and the investigators who work to get them back a fast-paced and engrossing exposé of the shady underbelly of the art world."
—Robert K. Wittman, New York Times bestselling author of Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, annually exceeding S6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors. Authors Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major twentieth-century heists of works by the Dutch Master. In a thrilling tour of thefts around the world—from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio—the authors track daring entries into and escapes from the world's most renowned museums and investigate robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion-dollar paintings. This dramatic and brilliant account lets you peek into the alluring and little-known world of art crimes.
ANTHONY M. AMORE is a columnist with the Boston Herald, a blogger for The Huffington Post, and the head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where he is leading the effort to recover its stolen Rembrandts.
TOM MASHBERG is an award-winning investigative reporter and the Sunday editor for the Boston Herald. He has also written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, and others. He was called "the quintessential newspaperman" by America's Most Wanted. Vissza