Download Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled off the World's Greatest Art Heist AudioBook Free
In a key appointment in 1981, a expert thief named Louis Royce provided job gangster Ralph Rossetti the end of an eternity. As a kid, Royce had been to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in during the night to find a good spot to sleep. He recognized the Museum's security was lax, and he provided this information to a manager of the Boston felony underworld. It had taken years before the Museum was strike. However when it finally happened, it quickly became one of the very most infamous art heists ever sold: 13 works of art respected at up to $500 million - including Rembrandt's "The Storm on the ocean of Galilee". The identification of the thieves was a mystery, and the paintings were never found. What happened in those intervening years? Which Boston team landed the big score? And why, more than twenty years later, does the FBI concern a press conference stating that they recognized who had pulled off the heist and what had happened to the artwork, but provided no identities and scant details? These mysteries are the storyline of Stephen Kurkjian's revealing audiobook. He will take the listener deep in to the Boston mob and paint the most satisfactory and engaging picture of this story ever informed.
