Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist

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"Thrilling...the book is like a Goodfellas/The Departed double feature."-Boston Globe

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a cast of characters that would make Martin Scorsese swoon in admiration. There are so many crime-world figures with their fingers in this story that the book is like a 'GoodFellas'/'The Departed'' double feature...Kurkjian constructs a thrilling narrative... A great mystery story well told.--Boston Globe
If you want to go looking for the lost Gardner horde (and collect the $5-million reward the gallery offers for its return), there's no better place to start than the pages of Master Thieves. The museum (and the FBI) could use the help.--Winnipeg Free Press
More than just a summation of all that's publicly known about the case-from the thieves' false mustaches to the F.B.I.'s sting operation--Kurkjian's book is an impressive attempt to solve the crime by reconsidering the evidence...gripping.--New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Stephen Kurkjian is one of the most acclaimed investigative reporters in the country. A veteran of the Boston Globe, he is the paper's former Washington bureau chief and a founding member of its investigative Spotlight Team. Kurkjian has won more than twenty-five national and regional awards including the Pulitzer Prize on three occasions. He is a graduate of Suffolk Law School and lives in Boston.