Research Catalog

Title

The looters / Harold Robbins and Junius Podrug.

Author

Robbins, Harold, 1916-1997.

Publication

New York : Forge, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Podrug, Junius.

Description

366 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"The Looters is an exciting ride into the international trade of contraband art, a world where greed and ego turn the quest for art into a deadly business as the superrich battle to acquire the rarest and most beautiful objects on earth." "Museum curator Madison Dupre pays fifty-five million dollars on behalf of her employer to buy the golden death mask of Semiramis, an ancient Babylonian queen. The first warrior-queen in history, Semiramis had an insatiable lust for power and sex. History called her the Whore of Babylon - and the three-thousand-year-old mask, legend says, has spawned evil over the millennia." "Accusations soon arise that the mask was stolen during the looting of the Iraqi museum when American troops entered Baghdad - including a claim that a special U.S. military unit had taken priceless artifacts from the museum." "Madison goes on the run after a murder and a frame-up ignite in the wake of the accusations. Stalked by killers, betrayed by people she thought were her friends, she struggles to stay alive in a growing whirlpool of intrigue. Her odyssey of danger takes her to London, Zurich, and Malaga and into the arms of a handsome soldier of fortune ... but she soon discovers that no one is who they say they are." "Traumatized by the violence and greed that the looting of the museum ignited, Madison makes a fatal decision: the mask has to be returned to the Iraqi museum. And the only way to do it is to pull a museum heist."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Antiques > Fiction
• Museums > Fiction
• Art thefts > Fiction

Note

• "A Tom Doherty Associates book."

ISBN

• 9780765313706
• 0765313707

LCCN

2007018766

OCLC

• 124074911
• ocn124074911
• SCSB-5369054

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries