The Art of the Heist

A non fiction book by Myles J Connor and Jenny Siler

'There's a rush to it, an elevation of the senses… It's a sweet feeling, one I'll never get tired of, not on my twentieth heist, or my fiftieth, or my hundredth.'

Once a promising young rock musician, the son of a decorated policeman, Myles Connor became one of Boston's most notorious criminals – a legendary art thief with irresistible charm and a genius IQ whose approach to his chosen profession mixed brilliant tactical planning with stunning bravado, brazen disguises, audaciously elaborate con jobs, and even the broad-daylight grab-and-dash. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Boston's Museum of Fine Art…no museum was off-limits. The fact that he was in jail at the time of the largest art theft in American history – the still-unsolved robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum – has not stopped the FBI from considering him a prime suspect. Optioned for film by the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director William Monahan (The Departed), The Art of the Heist is Connor's story – part confession, part thrill ride, and impossible to put down.