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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 "e;The Final Problem"e;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 "e;Piano"e; Charley, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and "e;the Scratch"e; 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.
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