
The Art of the Heist
Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-and-Roller, and Prodigal Son
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Narrated by:
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Wayne Mitchell
How did the son of a decorated policeman grow up to be one of Boston's most notorious criminals? How did he survive a decades-long feud with the FBI? How did he escape one jail sentence with a fake gun carved out of soap? How did he trade the return of a famous Rembrandt for early release from another sentence? The Art of the Heist is a roller-coaster ride of a life, the memoir of America's most infamous art thief Myles Connor.
Once a promising young rock musician, the son of a respected policeman, Myles Connor became one of Boston's most infamous criminals—a legendary art thief with irresistible charm and a genius IQ whose approach to his chosen profession mixed brilliant tactical planning with stunning bravado, brazen disguises, audaciously elaborate con jobs, and even the broad-daylight grab-and-dash. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Boston's Museum of Fine Art . . . no museum was off-limits. The fact that he was in jail at the time of the largest art theft in American history—the still-unsolved robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum—has not stopped the FBI from considering him a prime suspect. The Art of the Heist is Connor's story-part confession, part thrill ride, and impossible to put down.
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The over inflated rhetoric of Mile's Connor's accounts of his criminal misdeeds is not helped by the ultra dramatic reading of the narrator. In trying to emphasize the drama in certain parts of the story, the narrator only enhanced the stink of BS.
I confess I was drawn in by what I had heard of this musician / art thief. But instead of an interesting story of a cultured thief and Boston rocker, this reads as just another criminal story. But with the added unsavory twist that he considers himself such a stand-up guy....and he's OK with the outcome of everything... including the never returned items from the Gardener heist.
probably best enjoyed by someone familiar with Boston and the crime scene in the '70s and '80s.
Memoirs? Not so sure...
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Informational and Informative
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What an idiot, the bravado in his voice,
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