|
Product Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDSHe is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . .
--Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem"
The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. Suave, cunning Worth learned early that the best way to succeed was to steal. And steal he did.
Following a strict code of honor, Worth won the respect of Victorian society. He also aroused its fear by becoming a chilling phantom, mingling undetected with the upper classes, whose valuables he brazenly stole. His most celebrated heist: Gainsborough's grand portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire--ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales--a painting Worth adored and often slept with for twenty years.
With a brilliant gang that included "Piano" Charley, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and "the Scratch" Becker, master forger, Worth secretly ran operations from New York to London, Paris, and South Africa--until betrayal and a Pinkerton man finally brought him down.
In a decadent age, Worth was an icon. His biography is a grand, dazzling tour into the gaslit underworld of the last century. . . and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor
- Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
- Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
- A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
- Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King
*If this is not the "The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 14, 2024 18:39 +08.