Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures
Wittman, Robert K.
Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures How I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures / Robert K. Wittman with John Shiffman - 1st paperback ed - New York : Broadway Paperbacks , c2010. - viii, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
Alla prima. Stagehand -- Crimes against history -- Provenance. Making of an agent -- Mask of the man with the broken nose -- The accident -- Inspiration -- A new life -- Body of work. The gold man -- History out the back door -- A blood cloth -- Befriend & betray -- The con artist -- A hot hand -- The property of a lady -- National treasure -- Art crime team -- The old master -- Operation masterpiece. Mrs. Gardner -- Cold case -- A French connection -- Laurenz & Sunny -- Allies & enemies --- A coward has no scar -- Suspicious minds -- End game.
The world's top art sleuuth Robert Wittman, built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary. He went undercover to catch art thieves, scammers, and black-market traders around the world, rescuing some of history's greatest treasures. By the FBI's accounting, these high-stakes gambits saved hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of masterpieces and rare historic artifacts.
9780307461483
2009049083
Wittman, Robert K.
Art thefts----Investigation
N8795.5.W58 / W58 2010
364.16 WIT
Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures How I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures / Robert K. Wittman with John Shiffman - 1st paperback ed - New York : Broadway Paperbacks , c2010. - viii, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
Alla prima. Stagehand -- Crimes against history -- Provenance. Making of an agent -- Mask of the man with the broken nose -- The accident -- Inspiration -- A new life -- Body of work. The gold man -- History out the back door -- A blood cloth -- Befriend & betray -- The con artist -- A hot hand -- The property of a lady -- National treasure -- Art crime team -- The old master -- Operation masterpiece. Mrs. Gardner -- Cold case -- A French connection -- Laurenz & Sunny -- Allies & enemies --- A coward has no scar -- Suspicious minds -- End game.
The world's top art sleuuth Robert Wittman, built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary. He went undercover to catch art thieves, scammers, and black-market traders around the world, rescuing some of history's greatest treasures. By the FBI's accounting, these high-stakes gambits saved hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of masterpieces and rare historic artifacts.
9780307461483
2009049083
Wittman, Robert K.
Art thefts----Investigation
N8795.5.W58 / W58 2010
364.16 WIT
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