And last is Daniel Liang, a childhood friend of Will and Irene, pre-med at Stanford, whose father works for the FBI as part of an art crimes division. Alex Huang dropped out of MIT to work at a company in Silicon Valley to bring more income to her family, joining the team as the “hacker.” Lily Wu is a friend of Irene’s from Duke, a car racer in her free time who acts as the getaway driver. His sister, Irene Chen, is the perfect daughter, a public policy major at Duke who has the personality and charisma to talk anyone into (or out of) anything. Will Chen leads the group, a senior at Harvard with a passion for art and a view at claiming a place in history for himself. Portrait of a Thief follows five Asian and Asian-American college students from across the US, who come together to form a team (bank-rolled by a mysterious nouveau riche Chinese benefactor) to steal back five sculptures, scattered at museums across the globe, that were looted from the old Summer Palace in Beijing years ago. “Art could be beauty, but it was also power.”
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