In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's <em>The Scream</em>, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill.</p>
In this rollicking narrative, Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Café and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for <em>The Scream</em> will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever.</p>
爱德华·多尔尼克曾为《波士顿环球报》、《大西洋月刊》、《时代杂志》等报纸杂志撰稿,并有《进入伟大的未知世界》以及《睡椅上的疯狂》等多部著作。
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评分这不是旅行,不是巡展,是艺术品在黑夜、后车厢、储物柜、流氓、骗子、奸商、河流中的冒险,是继毒品买卖、军火走私之后的第三大国际黑市贸易。 博物馆,尤其藏有珍品的那些,总是戒备森严吗?他们用红外线感应?角落里都是隐蔽的探头?或者启动了某个装置整个博物馆都会自动封...
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