Jacob Meyers is stunned to see his father's Pissarro-taken by the
Nazis in 1945-among the paintings up for sale at The Old World
Auction House in Manhattan. He questions the manager, and while he
reads a phony provenance, the Pissarro is withdrawn from sale and
mysteriously disappears. Jacob, head of an intelligence group,
alerts Interpol and joins their ongoing investigation into the
underground world of stolen art. Two suspect paintings, a Manet and
a Cezanne sold by an international cartel in Berlin as copies, are
tracked to the Berghoff Gallery in Chicago where they are auctioned
off as originals. An accidental shooting at the gallery exposes the
cartel's con game and leads to the blackmail of a Las Vegas odds
maker, the murder of a San Francisco politician, and the
assassination of a former matinee idol in West Virginia. With the
help the Founders Group Intelligence (FGI), a group of patriotic
activists whose primary objective is to preserve the Constitution,
protect U.S. Sovereignty, and expose political corruption, Jacob
doggedly pursues the trail of clues from an estate in Georgia to a
castle in Denmark to recover the priceless pieces before the
originals become lost among the forgeries.
General
Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2007 |
First published: |
November 2007 |
Authors: |
Tom Barnes
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
326 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-595-70628-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Adventure / thriller >
Espionage & spy thriller
|
LSN: |
0-595-70628-2 |
Barcode: |
9780595706280 |
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