![]() They later take the prints to Christie’s in New York City for an appraisal, but that deal is aborted after Spencer foolishly leaves his real cell phone number with a Christie’s representative. ![]() When they’re spotted fleeing, they drop the large Audubon books and hightail it. The three teens bail on their first attempt, which includes laughable disguises, but on the second try, sans disguises, they tase the librarian, grab the oversized volumes, and stuff some rare prints into their backpacks. Warren says he has a dealer in Amsterdam willing to pay $10 million for the Audubon set. One day in 2004 at Kentucky’s Transylvania University, Warren, a childhood friend of Borsuk who’s an avid birder and, like Borsuk, into drugs, persuades Borsuk to join him and another drug-using friend, Spencer, in stealing Audubon’s multivolume Birds of America and some other rarities from the university’s rare book room. He wound up becoming a criminal instead, as shown in this diverting novelistic memoir. As a child, Borsuk wanted to be an FBI agent. ![]()
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