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PSB: Boston Edition is excited to welcome Geoffrey Kelly to celebrate the release of his book Thirteen Perfect Fugitives. Journalist Tom Mashberg will join Kelly in conversation.
ABOUT THIRTEEN PERFECT FUGITIVES
The true story of the world’s largest art heist, as told by the FBI agent who investigated the case.
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art were plucked from the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston by two subjects posing as police officers. They rang the night bell, claiming they were responding to a call of a disturbance. After incapacitating the guard and his partner with handcuffs and duct tape, the subjects spent the next eighty-one minutes inside the museum, leisurely removing some of the world’s most valuable pieces of artwork from the walls, including a rare Vermeer and Rembrandt’s only known seascape. The total loss associated with this robbery has been estimated at over $1 billion.
Based on meticulous investigations conducted to the standards required of an FBI special agent, Thirteen Perfect Fugitives offers author Geoffrey Kelly’s insights and theories about the infamous heist.
PRAISE FOR THIRTEEN PERFECT FUGITIVES
“With the pacing of a thriller and the allure of true crime, Geoff Kelly has brought readers a tale of mob bosses, art theft, and a decades old mystery. Thirteen Perfect Fugitives will keep you turning pages, wondering how any of this could possibly have happened, and marveling at the fact that all of it is true.”
— Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight, The Lies I Tell, and The Ghostwriter
“Geoff Kelly, the FBI’s lead investigator on the infamous Gardner Museum art heist, gives us not only the ultimate insider’s guide but a front row seat to a real-life thriller. Beautifully written and well-plotted by a smart, dedicated, and unusually sensitive lawman, this book should be required reading for any and all crime writers!”
— Jonathan Santlofer, bestselling author of The Last Mona Lisa and The Lost Van Gogh