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Flawless
- Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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. They did so without tripping an alarm or injuring a single guard in the process.
Although the crime was perfect, the getaway was not. The police zeroed in on a band of professional thieves fronted by Leonardo Notarbartolo, a dapper Italian who had rented an office in the Diamond Center and clandestinely cased its vault for over two years. The who of the crime had been answered, but the how remained largely a mystery.
Enter Scott Andrew Selby, a Harvard Law grad and diamond expert, and Greg Campbell, author of Blood Diamonds, who undertook a global goose chase to uncover the true story behind the daring heist. Tracking the threads of the story throughout Europe from Belgium to Italy, in seedy cafes and sleek diamond offices, the authors sorted through an array of conflicting details, divergent opinions and incongruous theories to put together the puzzle of what actually happened that Valentines Day weekend.
This real-life Ocean's Eleven, a combination of diamond history, journalistic reportage, and riveting true-crime story, provides a thrilling in-depth study detailing the better-than-fiction heist of the century.
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- Roberta W
- 2023-09-30
Love a good heist story
Overall, very good. Lots of time building up to the event, showing all the planning. Fascinating. Only downside is that I wasn’t quite breathless as the heist was happening. I don’t know if that’s because there wasn’t enough character development for me to root for (or against) the thieves, or if the thoroughness of the risk mitigation made it, well, feel less risky… nonetheless I wished I was more drawn in. But still excellent. Recommended.
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