Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402797552 (1402797559)
Publish date: February 7th 2012
Publisher: Sterling
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Art,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
True Crime,
True Story,
Belgium
Fair to middlin'. What I thought was going to be an exciting thriller, advertised as "the largest diamond heist in history", was rather flat both in the story and in the telling. The details of the planning and the heist itself were described as if our "school of Turin" was a crew of plumbers off t...
This book was very fascinating read for the largest diamond heist in history. It begins in 2003 where a group of men robbed one of the most ultra-secure vaults in the diamond district in Antwerp, but was it really? You know from the very beginning of the book that at least one thief was apprehended,...