All That Glitters: Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

A BBC Radio 4 `Book of the Week` `One of the hottest memoirs of 2024` Sunday Times Style `An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.` Patrick Radden Keefe `Explosive ... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history` Guardian `Liar`s Poker, but for art` Economist `A brilliant, devastating exposé` William Boyd DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core. A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.