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The improbable but true story of a man accused of murdering his entire family and the journalist he impersonated while on the run In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under extraordinary pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media. When the phone rang, though, he couldn't resist. At the other end was a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, whom Finkel congratulated on being the first in what was sure to be a long and bloodthirsty line of media watchdogs. The reporter was puzzled. In Waldport, Oregon, Christian Longo had killed his young wife and three children and dumped their bodies into the bay. With a stolen credit card, he fled south, making his way to Cancun, where he lived for several weeks under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel, journalist for the New York Times. True Story is the tale of a bizarre and convoluted collision between fact and fiction, and a meditation on the slippery nature of truth. When Finkel contacts Longo in jail, the two men begin a close and complex relationship. Over the course of a year, they exchange long letters and weekly phone calls, playing out a cat-and-mouse game in which it's never quite clear if the pursuer is Finkel or Longo--or both. Finkel's dogged pursuit of the true story pays off only at the end, in the gripping trial scenes in which Longo, after a lifetime of deception, finally tells the whole truth. Or so he says.

Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century - "The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, lan, and a great sense of timing."--The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." --The Wall Street Journal St phane Br itwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. He pulled off more than 200 heists, often in crowded museums in broad daylight. His girlfriend served as his accomplice. His collection was worth an estimated $2 billion. He never sold a piece, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom. He felt like a king. Until everything came to a shocking end. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century - "The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, lan, and a great sense of timing."--The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." --The Wall Street Journal St phane Br itwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. He pulled off more than 200 heists, often in crowded museums in broad daylight. His girlfriend served as his accomplice. His collection was worth an estimated $2 billion. He never sold a piece, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom. He felt like a king. Until everything came to a shocking end. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality--not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. "A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival." --The Wall Street JournalIn 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life--why did he leave? what did he learn?--as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.

The extraordinary story of a young man who chose to live in total isolation in the woods of Maine for 27 years

This is the true story of art thief Stephane Breitwieser, who stole over 300 art pieces in the course of 200 heists.

This is the true story of art thief Stephane Breitwieser, who stole over 300 art pieces in the course of 200 heists.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century - "The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, lan, and a great sense of timing."--The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." --The Wall Street Journal St phane Br itwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. He pulled off more than 200 heists, often in crowded museums in broad daylight. His girlfriend served as his accomplice. His collection was worth an estimated $2 billion. He never sold a piece, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom. He felt like a king. Until everything came to a shocking end. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

El extra o e incre ble caso Breitwieser, la historia de una obsesi n por el arte y una insaciable avidez por poseer la belleza a toda costa. «Impresionante. Tan absorbente como una novela de Highsmith solo que, por supuesto, hay que recordar constantemente que todo es verdad. Me ha encantado . -Maggie O'Farrell, autora de Hamnet Ha habido muchos ladrones de arte a lo largo de la historia, pero ninguno como St phane Breitwieser. l nunca rob por dinero, sino que sustra a solo aquellas piezas cuya belleza lo embelesaba, y expon a esos tesoros en un par de habitaciones secretas de su casa, donde pod a admirarlos a su antojo. Nuestro ladr n ten a, adem s de una gran sensibilidad art stica, una habilidad innata para burlar casi cualquier sistema de seguridad, y consigui perpetrar un n mero asombroso de robos a plena luz del d a, sin armas ni amenazas, mientras su novia distra a a los guardias de seguridad. Pero ese talento iba unido a un creciente desprecio por el riesgo y una necesidad adictiva de fijarse nuevos retos, ignorando las s plicas de su novia para que dejara de hacerlo, hasta que un ltimo acto de arrogancia acab con todo. A lo largo de casi ocho a os, Breitwieser recorri museos y catedrales de toda Europa, donde rob m s de trescientos objetos --entre ellos cuadros de Pieter Brueghel el Joven, Antoine Watteau o Fran ois Boucher-- y lleg a acumular m s de 1.400 millones de d lares en piezas de coleccionismo de primer nivel. En El ladr n de arte, un aut ntico rompecabezas con giros que resultan casi incre bles, Michael Finkel explora con brillantez la emoci n de los golpes que llev a Breitwieser a seguir adelante y narra de manera genial la historia de este vido coleccionista para quien los museos no eran m s que prisiones donde el arte se encontraba recluido. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2023: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." --The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser's strange world--unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief St phane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser's strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart's content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict's need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend's pleas to stop--until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

Vetävä true crime -kirja kyltymättömästä kauneudenkaipuusta ja rikoksista, joissa keinoja ei kaihdeta. Kautta aikojen taidetta on varastettu lukemattomilla tavoilla, mutta kukaan ei ole ollut niin taitava kuin ranskalainen Stéphane Breitwieser. Kahdeksassa vuodessa hän teki yli kaksisataa ryöstöä ympäri Eurooppaa. Mikä ihmeellisintä, häikäilemätön varas toimi keskellä kirkasta päivää vartijoiden nenän edessä - kunnes lopulta kaikki meni kaamealla tavalla pieleen. Kiehtova kertomus vie syvälle mestarivarkaan outoon maailmaan. Breitwieser ei varastanut rahasta. Sen sijaan hän piti yli miljardin euron arvoista saalista makuuhuoneessaan, missä hän nautti taiteesta sydämensä kyllyydestä.