The Perfect Thief: Inside the Most Brilliant Heists No One Ever Solved
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and walked out with thirteen masterpieces worth half a billion dollars. The paintings have never been found. The thieves have never been charged. The frames still hang empty on the walls today.
They are not alone.
THE PERFECT THIEF takes you inside fourteen of the most audacious heists in history - crimes so meticulously planned, so brilliantly executed, and so completely unsolved that the world's best investigators are still thinking about them.
Investigative journalist Jack Merritt reveals:
How a lone Italian carpenter stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre - and hid it in his apartment for two years while France searched desperatelyHow a team tunnelled 250 metres under a Brazilian city to breach the country's most secure vault from belowHow a group of pensioners with an average age over sixty pulled off Britain's largest burglary - and then went to the pubHow D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane, extorted $200,000, and parachuted into the night sky - never to be seen againHow hackers stole $81 million from the Bangladesh Bank using nothing but a keyboard and stolen codesAnd the man who spent a weekend in a Nice bank vault, ate dinner surrounded by other people's gold, and left behind only a note: Without weapons, without hatred, without violence
Each heist succeeded because someone found the gap - the single vulnerability in a system that everyone else believed was impenetrable. THE PERFECT THIEF is the story of those gaps, and of the extraordinary human ingenuity that found them.
The frames are still empty. The files are still open. The money is still out there.
Which means somewhere, right now, someone is planning the next one.
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