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Just before the sun came up one wintery morning in 1994, two thieves
broke into Norway's national art museum. Climbing a ladder to a
second floor window, one criminal suffered a spectacular fall but
got up, brushed himself up, and went back up and through a second
story window to steal Edward Munch's most famous painting - The
Scream, which has been valued at $72 million.
The museum was fitted out with all kinds of security cameras and
a fancy alarm system. But the only security guard never looked at
the monitors and assumed that the alarm was false. And so the thieves
easily escaped, heading off through the still-dark in a stolen car.
Of course the theft made headlines all over the world. It especially
embarassed the Norwegian government because it took place just as
the
Winter Olympics began, in Lillehammer. Norwegian detectives set
out to find the criminals. But a Scotland Yard detective named Charley
Hill who will make up a new identity (he claime to work for the
Getty Museum) and break the case.
This is an extremely fast-paced book that covers not only this heist
but also others. Stolen masterpieces would fill a museum. There
are more than five hundred Picassos, 43 Van Goghs, 174 Rembrandts,
and even a Vermeer or two stolen.
Plot
job/profession: - criminal (general)
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - champion of justice
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - eccentric
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - British
How sensitive is this person? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other people
Physique - average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 (an average amount)
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK - Scandinavia
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion
Century: - 1980's-Present
Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel? - in awe
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards
Writer's slant towards subject: - favorable
Pictures/Illustrations? - More than 15 in color
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 26-50% of book
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