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The Wall Street Journal named him “a residing legend.” The London Times named him “the most well-known artwork investigator within the world.” In Invaluable, Robert E. Wittman, the founding father of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, draws back the curtain on his amazing job for the very first time, supplying a real life global thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.    Rising from simple origins whilst the child of an antique dealer, Wittman constructed a twenty-year occupation which was nothing lacking remarkable. He went undercover, often unarmed, to capture art thieves, scammers, and black-market merchants in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Ohio and Madrid. In this site-turning memoir, Wittman fascinates with the tales behind his recoveries of precious art and antiquities: The gold shield of an old Peruvian soldier master.