Description: The true story of the world's largest art heist, as told by the FBI agent who investigated the case.
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art were plucked from the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston by two subjects posing as police officers. They rang the night bell, claiming they were responding to a call of a disturbance. After incapacitating the guard and his partner with handcuffs and duct tape, the subjects spent the next eighty-one minutes inside the museum, leisurely removing some of the world's most valuable pieces of artwork from the walls, including a rare Vermeer and Rembrandt's only known seascape. The total loss associated with this robbery has been estimated at over $1 billion. Based on meticulous investigations conducted to the standards required of an FBI special agent, Thirteen Perfect Fugitives offers author Geoffrey Kelly's insights and theories about the infamous heist.Brief description: Geoffrey Kelly is a retired FBI agent with more than thirty years of state and federal law enforcement experience. As one of the original members of the FBI's elite Art Crime Team, he managed numerous high-profile cases throughout his career and recovered more than $100 million in stolen artwork and cultural property. An internationally recognized expert in the field of fine art and antiquities theft, Geoffrey has trained domestic and international agencies and institutions around the world on proven methods and best practices to prevent art and cultural property theft.
Geoffrey is a graduate of Boston University where he earned his master's degree in criminal justice. He serves as an instructor at Harvard University's Extension School, teaching a graduate-level course on art crime and investigations.Review Quotes: "With the pacing of a thriller and the allure of true crime, Geoff Kelly has brought readers a tale of mob bosses, art theft, and a decades old mystery. Thirteen Perfect Fugitives will keep you turning pages, wondering how any of this could possibly have happened, and marveling at the fact that all of it is true."--Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight, The Lies I Tell, and The Ghostwriter