The Art of Deception - Hardcover
Art historian Nicholas Ochterlonie is the very model of a modern English gentleman, with a perfectly ordered life. But when his wife inexplicably demands a divorce, he finds himself diving into uncertainty like a junkie with a new drug. Soon he is risking his professional reputation, breaking the law, and embarking on a delirious affair with the mysterious Julian, beautiful and badly damaged by her past with a Russian gangster. Protecting Julian from the Mafya and challenging his colleagues? pet convictions give Nicholas an intoxicating new sense of himself. Of course, all addicts believe they?re in control?until they aren?t any more.
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Elizabeth Ironside is a prize-winning thriller writer. She has travelled widely and lived in Moscow and Tel Aviv. She now lives in London.
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First published in the U.K. in 1998, Ironside's solid thriller provides an intriguing look at the contemporary art world. London art historian Nicholas Ochterlonie, while returning one evening to his late mother's flat, where he's lived since his divorce, rescues a woman from an apparent street mugging. The victim turns out to be his next-door neighbor, Julian Bennet, and the two soon become lovers. Ochterlonie is sure that the assault wasn't random and that a threat still looms. Meanwhile, he creates controversy with his growing and increasingly vocal suspicions that a famous Vermeer portrait has been misattributed to the painter. The plot thickens when a police officer from the fraud squad stops by to ask about the real owner of Bennet's apartment, a shady Russian businessman. Ironside (A Very Private Enterprise) does a good job of making her not-entirely-sympathetic lead accessible. (Dec.)
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0340716843
- ISBN 13 9780340716847
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages375
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