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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I had a difficult time making myself go through the first few chapters. I've been so used to the Gideon Oliver series that the change in pace and perspective threw me off a but. First of all, art aficiaonado I am not. As such, I didn't think I'd be able to identify as much with the character and his love of paintings. Nevertheless, I'm glad I made myself go through the first part of the book which was really setting up the whole plot. It starts getting more fast-paced in the middle and although the art references flew over my head more often than not, it did get interesting and the twists were a surprise. (  ) marichu77 | May 13, 2008 |  Art stolen by Nazis. Pawn shop man killed. Ben Revere, ex-curator, discovers a Velazquez. Goes to Europe, Austria; to learn about the "lost truck" of stolen art. Also a love story. (  ) UPMarta | Dec 27, 2007 | Timely work covering Holocaust victims' loss of works of art and other treasures to plundering Germans and Russians. Good characters, well written. (  ) meerka | Jul 16, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Fifty years later, a Valezquez painting from this bundle of loot arrives at a Boston pawnshop run by a friend of Revere's. A murder during an attempted robbery and a guilty conscience send Revere off on a chase across Europe, where a rich old Viennese count, a Hungarian swindler, and the ubiquitous Russian mafia all offer clues and/or threats regarding the remaining paintings. Revere shares with the best of the fictional world of art detectives (such as Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy and Nicholas Kilmer's Fred Taylor) an obvious love for and knowledge of what they seek. Here's Elkins on Revere's first impressions of the Velazquez:
You knew at once that, despite the quaintness of costume, or trappings, or pose, this was a real person you were looking at--or rather, was looking at you--and you couldn't help feeling that if you could only look at him long enough, or in the right way, you might make a connection, an actual human connection, over all those years.That's why we look at pictures--and read books. --Dick Adler
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