About the book: 2023 / What is the mysterious “Mona Lisa” silent about? August 1911. Vincenzo Perugia makes his way through the dark corridors of the Louvre, removes the Mona Lisa from the wall and carries it off into the Parisian night. Two years later, the painting is back in the Louvre. More than a century later, art history professor Luc Perrone comes to Florence to learn about his family's most famous criminal, Vincenzo Perugia. Getting acquainted with the diary of his famous great-grandfather, he finds himself drawn into a risky adventure. Perrone still does not suspect that people involved in the theft and forgery of works of art are not only unprincipled, but also dangerous... Will the hero be able to uncover the mystery of the theft of the Mona Lisa? And what was behind the theft? Crime novelist and celebrated artist Jonathan Santlaufer tells the gripping story of the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, the resulting forgeries, and the modern underbelly of the art world..