Flawless

副标题: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History

ISBN: 9781402766510

出版社: Union Square Press

出版年: 2010-02-02

页数: 336

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">on February 15, 2003, a group of thieves broke into an allegedly airtight vault in the international diamond capital of Antwerp, Belgium and made off with over $108 million dollars worth of diamonds and other valuables. They did so without tripping an alarm or injuring a single guard in the process. 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">Although the crime was perfect, the getaway was not. The police zeroed in on a band of professional thieves fronted by Leonardo Notarbartolo, a dapper Italian who had rented an office in the Diamond Center and clandestinely cased its vault for over two years. The who” of the crime had been answered, but the how” remained largely a mystery. 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">Enter Scott Andrew Selby, a Harvard Law grad and diamond expert, and Greg Campbell, author of Blood Diamonds , who undertook a global goose chase to uncover the true story behind the daring heist. Tracking the threads of the story throughout Europefrom Belgium to Italy, in seedy cafés and sleek diamond officesthe authors sorted through an array of conflicting details, divergent opinions and incongruous theories to put together the puzzle of what actually happened that Valentine’s Day weekend. 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">This real-life ocean’s Eleven a combination of diamond history, journalistic reportage, and riveting true-crime storyprovides a thrilling in-depth study detailing the better-than-fiction heist of the century.