Robert K. Wittman.
Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures.
Boradway Books. 2010
The founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team pulls back the curtain on his remarkable undercover exploits,
offering a real-life thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.
The world’s top art sleuth, Robert Wittman, built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary. He went undercover—usually unarmed—to catch art thieves, scammers, and black-market traders around the world, rescuing some of history’s greatest treasures. By the FBI’s accounting, these high-stakes gambits saved hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of masterpieces and rare historic artifacts. Wittman says the statistics aren’t important. Which is worth more—a Rembrandt self-portrait or an American flag carried into battle? They’re both priceless.