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Siler, Jenny / Myles J Connor. The Art of the Heist - Confessions of a Master Thief. Harper Perennial, 2010.
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Jenny Siler / Myles J Connor

The Art of the Heist

Confessions of a Master Thief
  • Harper Perennial
  • 2010
  • Taschenbuch
  • 304 Seiten
  • ISBN 9780061672293

?There's a rush to it, an elevation of the senses. . . . It's a sweet feeling, one I'll never get tired of, not on my twentieth heist, or my fiftieth, or my hundredth.? Once a promising young rock musician, the son of a decorated policeman, Myles Connor became one of Boston's most notorious criminals?a legendary art thief with irresistible charm and a genius IQ whose approach to his chosen profession mixed brilliant tactical planning with stunning bravado, brazen disguises, audaciously elaborate con jobs, and even the broad-daylight grab- and-dash. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Boston's Museum of Fine Art . . .no museum was off-limits. The fact that he was in jail at the time of the largest art theft in American history?the still-unsolved robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum?has not stopped the FBI from considering him a prime suspect. Optioned for film by the Oscar- winning screenwriter and director William Monahan ( The

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Departed ), The Art of the Heist is Connor's story?part confession, part thrill ride, and impossible to put down.

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