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Master Thieves - The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Master Thieves - The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Loot Price R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
You Save R87 (17%)
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The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a
secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career
gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its
collections included priceless artworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer,
Degas, and others, its security was cheap, mismanaged, and out of
date. And now, it seemed, the whole Boston criminal underworld knew
it.Nearly a decade passed before the Museum museum was finally hit.
But when it finally happened, the theft quickly became one of the
most infamous art heists in history: thirteen works of art valued
at up to 500 million, by some of the most famous artists in the
world, were taken. The Boston FBI took control of the
investigation, but twenty-five years later the case is still
unsolved and the artwork is still missing.Stephen Kurkjian, one of
the top investigative reporters in the country, has been working
this case for over nearly twenty years. In Master Thieves , he
sheds new light on some of the Gardner's most abiding mysteries.
Why would someone steal these paintings, only to leave them hidden
for twenty-five years? And why, if one of the top crime bosses in
the city knew about this score in 1981, did the theft happen in
1990? What happened in those intervening years? And what might all
this have to do with Boston's notorious gang wars of the
1980s?Kurkjian's reporting is already responsible for some of the
biggest breaks in this story, including a meticulous reconstruction
of what happened at the Museum museum that fateful night. Now
Master Thieves will reveal the identities of those he believes
plotted the heist, the motive for the crime, and the details that
the FBI has refused to discuss. Taking you on a journey deep into
the gangs of Boston, Kurkjian emerges with the most complete and
compelling version of this story ever told.
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