The Rescue Artist, Edward Dolnick
The Rescue Artist, Edward Dolnick
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The Rescue Artist
A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

Author: Edward Dolnick

Narrator: Sean Crisden

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2018

Synopsis

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective.The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries listeners deep inside the art underworld—and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever.

About Edward Dolnick

Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown, The Forger’s Spell, and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist. A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he lives with his wife near Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus on May 04, 2022

Dolnick's well-researched book, written in 2005, tells two stories. The first is an art heist. On Feb. 12, 1994, two men propped up a ladder to the second floor of the National Gallery in Oslo. There was little grace or subtlety in their movements. On his first attempt, the thief scaling the ladder......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 06, 2018

What an incredible story! This is as thrilling as some of your better fiction reads, yet is all true. I would love to have a beer with Charley Hill. Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about how real art detectives work.......more

Goodreads review by Will on March 10, 2020

After looking through the reviews of The Rescue Artist on Goodreads, there seemed to be mixed feelings about this book. The majority were positive, as the book was an average of 3.77 out of 5 stars. This number proves this book is a good read since the average cumulated from over 2,600 reviews. Sinc......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 09, 2019

I have always been fascinated with art heists, and this book covers (mostly) one of the more infamous ones. A lot of the information, as well as coverage of other notable thefts and personalities, I have read about before, but still there were interesting tidbits and material I was unfamiliar with.......more

Goodreads review by Audrey Approved on January 02, 2024

I read Dolnick's The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone in 2022 and absolutely loved it. For a comprehensive history of the Rosetta Stone, you can't go wrong! As such, I felt super optimistic picking up The Rescue Artist considering I've had such good luck with this author, an......more

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