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The Rescue Artist

A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

By Edward Dolnick

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| Hardcover | 9780060531171

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In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in LillehContinue

In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill.

In this rollicking narrative, Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Café and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for The Scream will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever.

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  • The Rescue Artist By Edward Dolnick

    Makes you wanna Scream'Edward Dolnick's The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece is a romp of a read: it's as fast-paced as the best suspense thriller, with vividly drawn characters and a lively lick of ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • The Rescue Artist / By Edward Dolnick

    Although it only rarely makes the papers, art theft is an international industry, its multimillion-dollar profits serviced by a web of shadowy connections that extend from the grottiest pawnshop right up to the highest reaches of the corporate world. ... (read full critics)

    straight published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010

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  • Reading about Charley Hill is interesting in itself, but Dolnick's writing makes it even more entertaining. Recommended.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0060531177
  • ISBN-13: 9780060531171
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pub date: Jun 28, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Others
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