Master Thieves

More than just a summation of all that’s publicly known about the case-from the thieves’ false mustaches to the F.B.I.’s sting operation–Kurkjian’s book is an impressive attempt to solve the crime by reconsidering the evidence…gripping.“–New York Times Book Review
a cast of characters that would make Martin Scorsese swoon in admiration. There are so many crime-world figures with their fingers in this story that the book is like a ‘GoodFellas’/‘The Departed” double feature…Kurkjian constructs a thrilling narrative… A great mystery story well told.–Boston Globe
If you want to go looking for the lost Gardner horde (and collect the $5-million reward the gallery offers for its return), there’s no better place to start than the pages of Master Thieves. The museum (and the FBI) could use the help.–Winnipeg Free Press

Stephen Kurkjian is one of the most acclaimed investigative reporters in the country. A veteran of the Boston Globe, he is the paper’s former Washington bureau chief and a founding member of its investigative Spotlight Team. Kurkjian has won more than twenty-five national and regional awards including the Pulitzer Prize on three occasions. He is a graduate of Suffolk Law School and lives in Boston.

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