The Art Thief

Yes. Michael Finkel's The Art Thief is narrative nonfiction about Stéphane Breitwieser, a French man who, with his girlfriend Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus, stole an estimated $1.4–2 billion in art and artifacts from museums and cathedrals across Europe between 1994 and 2001 — reportedly the most prolific art thief in modern history.

The book centers on Stéphane Breitwieser, who carried out roughly 200 thefts across seven countries, keeping the stolen objects for his own private collection rather than selling them.

Michael Finkel, an American journalist and author of the bestseller The Stranger in the Woods. The Art Thief was published in 2023 by Knopf in the US and Simon & Schuster in the UK.