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Art thieves.
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Knelman, Joshua
Art thefts.
Art thieves.
Theft from museums.
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Hot art : chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art / Joshua Knelman.
by
Knelman, Joshua
Douglas & McIntyre, c2011.
Call #:
364.16287 K68h
Subjects
Art thefts.
Art thieves.
Theft
from
museums
.
ISBN:
9781553658917
9781771000697 (pbk.)
Description:
314 p. : 23 cm.
Summary:
"A young journalist from Toronto spends four years immersing himself in the mysterious world of international art
theft
, travelling from Cairo to New York, London, Montreal and Los Angeles. He befriends the slippery Paul, a master thief who got his start in Brighton as a knocker--travelling door to door as a junk collector while secretly scanning homes for valuables that he would steal later on. He gets caught up in the world of Donald Hrycyk, a detective who works on a shoestring budget in downtown L.A. to recover stolen art. Through alternating chapters focusing on Paul and a small international network of detectives, the story of the thief and the detective unfolds, revealing the dramatic rise of international art
theft
. Joshua Knelman's investigation finds there are only a handful of detectives, FBI agents and lawyers fighting a global battle against a thriving black market estimated to be one of the largest in the world. Meanwhile, the chain of criminals moves from thugs on the street to multinational organized crime syndicates, to a global network of art dealers who wash the artworks' provenance clean again. In a surprise ending, Knelman learns that corruption can appear in the unlikeliest places. A major work of investigative journalism, Hot Art is a globetrotting mystery filled with cunning and eccentric characters."--From Publisher.
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