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

Title Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures
Names Wittman, Robert K.
Shiffman, John. Author
Book Number DB125478
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "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 market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the stories behind his recoveries of priceless art and antiquities: the golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king; the Rodin sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement; the rare Civil War battle flag carried into battle by one of the nation's first African-American regiments. The art thieves and scammers he caught run the gamut from rich to poor, smart to foolish, organized criminals to desperate loners. Wittman has saved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art and antiquities, but he considers them all equally priceless."-- From publisher description. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Deakins, Mark.
Local Subject Exclusion - Male Narrator - MN
Exclusion - Short Book - SH
Criminology - 364
Biography and Autobiography - BIO
Autobiography - ABI
Biography - Contemporary - BIC
Biography - Cops, Lawyers & Defendants - BIX
The Arts and Architecture - ART
Painting & Sculpture - PAS
Crime & True Detective - CRI
LC Subject Art thefts - Investigation
Nonfiction
Call Number 364.16287 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2010 9780307735881 2010
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