内容简介
The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewelthief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining anoutwardly conventional life—an astonishing and completely truestory, the like of which has never before been told . . . orlived.
Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived.During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the innercircles of high society and stole more than $35 million worth offabulous jewels from such celebrities as Robert Goulet, ArmandHammer, Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Truman Capote, Margaux Hemingwayand Johnny Weissmuller—he even hit the Mafia. Along the way heseduced a high-profile Midwest socialite into leaving her prominentindustrialist husband, nearly died after being shot during arobbery, tricked both Christie’s and Sotheby’s into fencing stolengoods for him and was a fugitive for five years and the object of anationwide manhunt. Yet despite the best efforts of law enforcementauthorities from several states as well as the federal government,he spent less than three years total in prison.
Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived.During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the innercircles of high society and stole more than $35 million worth offabulous jewels from such celebrities as Robert Goulet, ArmandHammer, Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Truman Capote, Margaux Hemingwayand Johnny Weissmuller—he even hit the Mafia. Along the way heseduced a high-profile Midwest socialite into leaving her prominentindustrialist husband, nearly died after being shot during arobbery, tricked both Christie’s and Sotheby’s into fencing stolengoods for him and was a fugitive for five years and the object of anationwide manhunt. Yet despite the best efforts of law enforcementauthorities from several states as well as the federal government,he spent less than three years total in prison.