While on honeymoon in Vienna in June, 1998 - at the height of the
tourist season - Gerald Daniel Blanchard, an accomplished thief,
happened upon the greatest challenge of his life when he spotted
the last remaining "Sisi Star" on display in Schonbrunn Palace.
Named after its former owner, the Empress Elisabeth, the
ten-pointed diamond and pearl star was originally one of 27 that
the enigmatic Sisi wore in her extravagantly long hair. Despite the
multi-layered security system protecting the priceless jewelry,
Blanchard decided then and there to steal it. The star remained
missing for nine years until two Canadian police investigators
launched a joint task force to bring down a criminal organization
that had robbed banks, stores and ordinary citizens on several
continents. When their chief suspect offered to reveal the
whereabouts of the Sisi Star, the investigators realized they were
dealing with no ordinary thief. But no one involved in the case
fully understood the history of the star, its ties to obsession,
suicide and assassination.
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