Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures
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Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offering a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black mark... Full description
Table of Contents:
- 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.