A review by wandering_reads
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman

4.0

This was a great book about the FBI art crime team - or, one man band, as in the case of Robert Wittman. His tales of retrieving great art and artifacts from the hands of unscrupulous dealers and criminals. He is candid in his stories, separating the Hollywood version of art theft and FBI lifestyle from reality quite quickly. It is interesting to note how little the U.S. puts resources into art crime versus that of European countries, and in some way, it's an elegy to the stolen history and culture that can be recovered - and some that can't be or won't ever be. It's made me want to read up more on the Gardener heist and other major art crimes. Overall, a fascinating read about crime and what the real issue is with art crime - the theft of something priceless in our human culture.