The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel
thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an
outwardly conventional life--an astonishing and completely true
story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived.
Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived.
During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the inner
circles of high society and stole more than $35 million worth of
fabulous jewels from such celebrities as Robert Goulet, Armand
Hammer, Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Truman Capote, Margaux Hemingway
and Johnny Weissmuller--he even hit the Mafia. Along the way he
seduced a high-profile Midwest socialite into leaving her prominent
industrialist husband, nearly died after being shot during a
robbery, tricked both Christie's and Sotheby's into fencing stolen
goods for him and was a fugitive for five years and the object of a
nationwide manhunt. Yet despite the best efforts of law enforcement
authorities from several states as well as the federal government,
he spent less than three years total in prison.
Shadowy, elusive and intensely private, Mason has been the subject
of many magazine and newspaper features, but no journalist has ever
come close to knowing the facts. Now, in his own words and with no
holds barred, he reveals everything, and the real story is far more
incredible than any of the reporters, detectives or FBI agents who
pursued Mason ever imagined. Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief,
expertly co-written by bestselling author Lee Gruenfeld, is a
unique true-crime confessional.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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