Word: dolnick
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...Edward Dolnick, a journalist, centers his story on Charley Hill, a London undercover cop raised mostly in the U.S. who has made a specialty of tracking down purloined Goyas and Bruegels before they are fenced to Bahrain or, worse, ditched in a trash compactor. It's one of Hill's missions in life to disabuse people of the idea that art thieves are cultivated smoothies. "The thieves who steal works of art," he tells us, "were usually stealing hubcaps a few years earlier...
...Dolnick reminds us that the most famous artworks have a way of turning up, although sometimes not for years. Meanwhile, they can make appearances in surprising places. There's even an art-world in joke in Dr. No, the 1962 film that introduces James Bond. On a wall of the evil doctor's Caribbean hideaway, you can spot Goya's portrait The Duke of Wellington, famously stolen the year before from the National Gallery in London. So far, though, there is no sign of The Scream version taken last year, not even in the movies. --By Richard Lacayo