Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures by Robert K. WittmanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a great, quickly paced (nearly breathless) foray into the world of an FBI art crime undercover agent. A nice "double feature" with The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, this tells the story of some of the recent (last several decades) art heists and their denouement or most recent chapters: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the small self-portrait on copper by Rembrandt stolen from Nationalmuseum in Stockholm along with Renoir's A Young Parisienne and Conversation in an armed robbery in December 2000 and recovered in Copenhagen in 2005, and more. It seems many of the cases have an international dimension and long, drawn-out stings leading to dramatic seizures.
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