
The Man Who Stole the Gods. By Matthew Campbell. Portfolio; 432 pages; $35. Penguin Business; £20
《偷走神祇的人》。作者:马修·坎贝尔。Portfolio出版社;432页;35美元;企鹅商业;20英镑
TOEK TIK knew the man only as “Sia Ford” (Lord Ford) but had heard “he alone was creating much of the demand that sent looting crews into the temples.” Sometimes Toek Tik and his colleagues would plunder(掠夺,抢劫) to order(按照订单(定做)): Sia Ford would specify the kind of pieces he was after, and they would go into the Cambodian jungle with their shovels and rope in search of bronzes or depictions of Vishnu(① 身份:印度教三大主神之一,负责维持宇...).
托克·提克只知道此人叫“西亚·福特”(福特勋爵),但曾听说“仅他一人就创造了大量需求,驱使掠夺团队进入寺庙”。有时托克·提克和同事们会按订单掠夺:西亚·福特会指定他想要的物件类型,他们便带着铲子和绳子进入柬埔寨丛林,寻找青铜器或毗湿奴雕像。
Sia Ford was, in fact, a British businessman called Douglas Latchford. In a fascinating new book Matthew Campbell, a journalist at Bloomberg Businessweek, describes his role in “a long-term criminal conspiracy(阴谋,共谋) that spanned from Cambodia’s killing fields to the Upper East Side(① 位置:纽约曼哈顿的富裕社区,以豪华公...)”.
西亚·福特实际上是一名英国商人,名叫道格拉斯·拉奇福德。在一本引人入胜的新书中,彭博商业周刊记者马修·坎贝尔描述了他在“一项长期犯罪阴谋”中的作用,该阴谋“从柬埔寨的杀戮战场一直延伸到纽约上东区”。

