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Rated: 12 times. Average rating 3.92
Description
Traces the dramatic quest to find a missing 2,500-year-old chalice from ancient Greece that disappeared for more than a decade after an anonymous European dealer outbid the Metropolitan Museum of Art at a Sotheby's auction, in an account that reveals the high-stakes criminal organizations that challenged its recovery.
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