Capers and Crime Novels Archives

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures

by Robert K. Wittman

Wittman is a retired FBI agent and founder of its Art Crimes Team, and his day-in-the-life stories read like a spy thriller. His tale of going undercover to track down stolen masterpieces and bust art thieves depicts a seedy world that’s quite different from the polite cat-and-mouse games of The Thomas Crown Affair.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

by Julian Rubinstein

The Whiskey Robber is Attilla Ambrus, a gentleman thief who couldn’t quite make ends meet, so he turned to robbing banks to supplement his income in 1990s Hungary, all while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest. His brazen crime spree goes on for years, which would be unbelievable if he weren’t up against a police team that’s almost too incompetent to be true.

Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History

by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell

This is a real-life Ocean’s 11 tale of a 2003 robbery in Antwerp, Belgium, when thieves broke into a supposedly airtight vault and made off with 108 million dollars of loot. The crime was flawless, but the getaway was clumsy, and real-life diamond experts Campbell and Selby were called in to track down the thieves in a real-life worldwide goose chase.

Capers and Crime Novels

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History

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