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Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures

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...

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Main Author: Wittman, Robert K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Wittman, Robert K.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaelogy and Anthropology.
Musée Rodin.
Art thefts > Investigation.
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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.

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