Book Log 2007 #20: Stolen Masterpiece Tracker by Thomas McShane with Dary Matera
I picked this up based on the subject matter - the memoirs of an FBI art theft specialist who often works undercover - but I should have guessed from the lousy title that the actual writing was going to be a problem.
I didn't make it past the second chapter, thanks to the soft-boiled style of prose that contaminated the page. It didn't help that every page seemed to contain two or three instances of "irony" that, ironically, weren't really examples of irony. It's a shame, too, as I was looking forward to reading about McShane's involvement in the local Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery.
Avoid.
13 June 2007
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