The Icon Thief

Authors: Nevala-Lee, Alec
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC031000
ISBN: 9781101577240, Related ISBNs: 0451236203, 110157724X, 9780451236203, 9781101577240
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 416,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A controversial masterpiece resurfaces in Budapest. A ballerina's headless corpse is found beneath the boardwalk at Brighton Beach. And New York's Russian mob is about to collide with the equally ruthless art world...

Maddy Blume, an ambitious young art buyer for a Manhattan hedge fund, is desperate to track down a priceless painting by Marcel Duchamp, the most influential artist of the twentieth century. The discovery of a woman’s decapitated body thrusts criminal investigator Alan Powell into a search for the same painting, with its enigmatic image of a headless nude. And a Russian thief and assassin known as the Scythian must steal the painting to save his reputation – and his life.  The murderous race is on. And in the lead is an insidious secret society intent on reclaiming the painting for reasons of its own – and by any means necessary….
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