"An astonishing, soaring and seizing novel that means no less than to explain human culture. A detective story with a real detective and a real thief--and yet all the while it is the mind that is being plundered of its own frights."--Cynthia Ozick " Acts of Theft] ranges from the lost world of the Austrian aristocracy . . . to a thick-walled hacienda in the jungles of Mexico in the 1950s. . . . Cohen has resurrected the special man,...