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The Cezanne Chase

The Cezanne Chase

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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.

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