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Thomas SwanThe Cezanne Chase (Inspector Jack Oxby) Newmarket Press 11 October 2011 155704967X / 9781557049674 Paperback NEW Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date Imagine if Tom Clancy used high art as a plot vehicle instead of advanced technology; if instead of tracking rogue Russian submarines, Jack Ryan were on the trail of international art thieves. This is the twist Thomas Swan provides in The Cézanne Chase, a novel set in an art world where the stakes are just as high, and the operatives just as ruthless, as in the more familiar crime-fiction universe of espionage and nuclear weapons. The Cézanne of the title refers to two self-portraits by that painter that are destroyed in an attempt to manipulate the black market in art. In addition to the usual collection of good guys and bad guys, exotic locations and tricky double-crosses, The Cézanne Chase also offers some pretty nifty insights into the nitty-gritty of buying, selling, preserving--and destroying--great works of art. 9781557049674 0.00 Price:
24.95 AUD
Thomas SwanThe Da Vinci Deception Newmarket Press 11 October 2011 1557049688 / 9781557049681 Paperback NEW Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date A thrilling novel that pits Scotland Yard against a mastermind of art forgery, from the author of the acclaimed The Cézanne Chase. 9781557049681 0.00 Price:
24.95 AUD
Thomas SwanThe Final Faberge (Inspector Jack Oxby) Newmarket Press 11 October 2011 1557049696 / 9781557049698 Paperback NEW Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date On the night of his murder in 1916, Grigori Rasputin picks up a Faberg? Imperial Easter egg he'd commissioned as a gift for Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna. In 1963, Vasily Karsalov loses the egg in a rigged poker game. More than 30 years later, Vasily's son Mikhail, now known as Mike Carson, has become a U.S. citizen, the owner of several car dealerships. At the opening of a new showroom, Carson is visited by Sasha Akimov, an old family friend, who tells Carson how his father was cheated out of the egg. Before revealing more, Akimov is shot. Meanwhile, in London, Det. Chief Insp. Jack Oxby takes a leave from Scotland Yard to accept a commission from the Forbes family to determine if Rasputin's Imperial egg still exists and, if so, to find it. New York City police detective Alex Tobias is investigating Akimov's murder when a meeting with Oxby provokes him to join the dangerous, cross-continental search for the precious artifact. Swan carefully intertwines the search for the murderer and the search for the egg so that the novel's numerous coincidences appear believable. And while Oxby doesn't sound the least bit English, he is charming and disarmingly intelligent. With only two other entries (The Da Vinci Deception and The C?zanne Chase), Swan's series of art world mysteries has a short history, but its clever premises and excellent characters earmark it for a long future. (Oct.) 9781557049698 0.00 Price:
24.95 AUD
