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The Rockport Public Library, Friends of the Rockport Public Library, and Toad Hall Bookstore invite you to the kickoff of our Meet the Author speaker series this summer. Join us as we welcome back Anthony M. Amore.
 
Anthony is an expert in security matters, especially those related to cultural property and homeland security. Presently, he is Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where he is charged with the ongoing efforts to recover 13 works of art stolen from the museum on March 18, 1990.
 
In 2011, he co-authored the Wall Street Journal true-crime bestseller "Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists". His second book, "The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World" was published in 2015 and was a New York Times Crime Bestseller.  
 
In addition, he has been a lecturer in homeland security at Fisher College and provides analysis on issues related to security and terrorism for a number of local and national news outlets, including the BBC, NBC News, NPR, CNN, FOX, and others.
 
His work as security director has been highlighted in the book "Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World", which describes him as "among the most innovative, and most effective, museum security directors in the world."

While with the Department of Homeland Security/TSA, he was nominated by his superiors for a Service to America Medal in 2002 and 2003.
 
Anthony has 15 years of national security, law, intelligence, and crisis management experience with federal government agencies. He was instrumental in the reorganization and regionalization of national homeland security efforts post-September 11th and was the FAA's lead agent responding to the attempted terrorist attack by Richard Reid, the so-called “Shoe Bomber” in December 2001.
 
Book sale and signing will follow the program