The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief - Softcover
The Napoleon of Crime The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam 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.
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"Fascinating...a brisk, lively, colorful biography of an amazing criminal."
--The New York Times "Adam Worth, the greatest thief of the 19th century, could have furnished the basis of a great novel...Ben Macintyre has given him a biography that reads like one."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book
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--The New York Times "Adam Worth, the greatest thief of the 19th century, could have furnished the basis of a great novel...Ben Macintyre has given him a biography that reads like one."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book
BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of the wartime espionage trilogy.
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- PublisherCrown Publishing Group (NY)
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0307886468
- ISBN 13 9780307886460
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