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The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art - hardcover, Hart, 9780802714268
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Walker & Company
ISBN-10
0802714269
ISBN-13
9780802714268
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6053188
Product Key Features
Book Title
Irish Game : a True Story of Crime and Art
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, General, Europe / Ireland
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, True Crime, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-064539
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.16/2
Synopsis
In the annals of art theft, no case has matched--for sheer criminal panache--the heist at Ireland's Russborough House in 1986. The Irish police knew right away that the mastermind was a Dublin gangster named Martin Cahill. Yet the great plunder --including a Gainsborough, a Goya, two Rubenses, and a Vermeer-- remained at large for years. Cahill taunted the police with a string of other crimes, but in the end it was the paintings that brought him low. The challenge of disposing of such famous works forced him to reach outside his familiar world into the international arena, and when he did, his pursuers were waiting. The movie-perfect sting that broke Cahill uncovered an astonishing maze of banking and drug-dealing connections that redefined the way police view art theft. As if that were not enough, the recovery of the Vermeer--by then worth $200 million--led to a remarkable discovery about the way Vermeer achieved his photographic perspective. The Irish Game places the great theft in Ireland's long sad history of violence and follows the thread that led, as a direct result of Cahill's desperate adventures with the Russborough art, to his assassination by the IRA. With the storytelling skill of a novelist and the instincts of a detective, Matthew Hart follows the twists and turns of this celebrated case, linking it with two other world-famous thefts--of Vermeer's "The Concert" and other famous paintings at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" at the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo. Sharply observed, fully explored, The Irish Game is a masterpiece in the literature of true crime.
LC Classification Number
N8795.3.I8H37 2004
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- r***a (1283)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat product.
- s***n (755)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseWhat an inspiring book!! I read 100 pages before setting it down.
- d***d (972)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood book. Good price. Thanks!