<p> ?There?s a rush to it, an elevation of the senses. . . . It?s a sweet feeling, one I?ll never get tired of, not on my twentieth heist, or my fiftieth, or my hundredth.? </p> <p> Once a promising young rock musician, the son of a decorated policeman, Myles Connor became one of Boston?s most notorious criminals?a legendary art thief with irresistible charm and a genius IQ whose approach to his chosen profession mixed brilliant tactical planning with stunning bravado, brazen disguises, audaciously elaborate con jobs, and even the broad-daylight grab-and-dash. New York?s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Boston?s Museum of Fine Art . . .no museum was off-limits. The fact that he was in jail at the time of the largest art theft in American history?the still-unsolved robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum?has not stopped the FBI from considering him a prime suspect. Optioned for film by the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director William Monahan (<i>The Departed</i>), <i>The Art of the Heist</i> is Connor?s story?part confession, part thrill ride, and impossible to put down. </p>