The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

In the predawn gloom of a February day in…

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