The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief

✍ Scribed by Connor, Myles J; Siler, Jenny

• Book ID: 110201182
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 194 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061672293

✦ Synopsis

�There�s a rush to it, an elevation of the senses. . . . It�s a sweet feeling, one I�ll never get tired of, not on my twentieth heist, or my fiftieth, or my hundredth.� Once a promising young rock musician, the son of a decorated policeman, Myles Connor became one of Boston�s most notorious criminals�a legendary art thief with irresistible charm and a genius IQ whose approach to his chosen profession mixed brilliant tactical planning with stunning bravado, brazen disguises, audaciously elaborate con jobs, and even the broad-daylight grab-and-dash. New York�s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Boston�s Museum of Fine Art . . .no museum was off-limits. The fact that he was in jail at the time of the largest art theft in American history�the still-unsolved robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum�has not stopped the FBI from considering him a prime suspect. Optioned for film by the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director William Monahan (The Departed), The Art of the Heist is Connor�s story�part confession, part thrill ride, and impossible to put down.