Thursday, February 9, 2012

On My Radar: Thursday Edition

Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
by Scott Andrew Selby & Greg Campbell
Sterling
Trade Paperback

From the publisher website:


On February 15, 2003, a group of thieves broke into an allegedly airtight vault in the international diamond capital of Antwerp, Belgium and made off with over $108 million dollars worth of diamonds and other valuables. The crime seemed flawless--but the getaway was not. Scott Andrew Selby, a Harvard Law grad and diamond expert, and Greg Campbell, author of Blood Diamonds, undertook a global chase to uncover the true story behind this daring heist. Tracking the threads of the story throughout Europe, the authors put together the puzzle of what actually happened that Valentine’s Day weekend. Now in paper, this real-life Ocean’s Eleven provides a thrilling in-depth study detailing the better-than-fiction heist of the century.
Scott Andrew Selby is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Harvard Law School, and Sweden’s Lund University, where he wrote his master’s thesis on diamonds. He is licensed to practice law in California and New York.Greg Campbell is an award-winning journalist and the author of Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones and The Road to Kosovo: A Balkan Diary. His work has appeared in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.



Praise for Flawless: “Fans of caper books and movies will be in seventh heaven here.  …A must-read for true-crime fans.”
Booklist (Starred Review)

 “…a riveting narrative…” —Boston Globe

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