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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Oct 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws
Retail Price: $16.00
Ages: 18 - 17 Pages: 288
Unrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Yet unlike most thieves who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love-the love of books. Perhaps equally obsessive is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed "bibliodick" who's driven to catch him. Following this eccentric cat-and-mouse chase with a mixture of suspense, insight and humor, Allison Hoover Bartlett plunges the reader deep into a rich world of fanatical book lust and considers what it is that makes some people stop at nothing to posses the titles they love.