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A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-27-23
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime, Art
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worldâs most prolific art thief, StĂ©phane Breitwieser.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieserâs strange worldâunlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.
For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief StĂ©phane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight yearsâin museums and cathedrals all over EuropeâBreitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.
In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieserâs strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heartâs content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addictâs need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriendâs pleas to stopâuntil one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Cover images: (top) Bat by Albrecht DĂŒrer. Bridgeman Images; (bottom) The Sleeping Shepherd (detail) by François Boucher © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
©2023 Michael Finkel (P)2023 Random House Audio
Critic Reviews
âIt is romantic to liken art thieves to Pierce Brosnanâs glamorous character in The Thomas Crown Affair. The reality is far less charming. Case in point: StĂ©phane Breitwieser, one of the most successful art thieves of all time. From roughly 1994 to 2001, Breitwieser executed more than 200 heists. The bookâs first lesson? Europe has a lot of understaffed historic buildings. The second? Even a kleptomaniac with delusions of grandeur can be made mildly sympathetic in the hands of a skilled writer.â (Bloomberg)
âThis is an absorbing and astonishing portrait of a fascinating and complicated characterâa riveting story of obsession and misplaced brilliance.â (Kirk Wallace Johnson, best-selling author of The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon)
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