(5) = Best; (4) = Better; (3) = Good; (2) = Fair; (1) = OK
These abstracts serve as reminders to myself; they serve to "jog" my memory on what a book was all about. That's all. This is not a literary critique, not a social commentary, and certainly nothing profound to warrant further discussion.
(5) = means that I really enjoyed this book; (1) = means I finished reading it but wonder if my time could have been better spent elsewhere.
The story is about Art Collectors and the extremes they will go to possess precious, classical art works around the world. The story takes you to Romania, Russia, Japan and England. The FBI has had its eye on Fenton Finances for their suspicious loan shark business a long time but just haven’t got enough evidence against them. A wealthy heiress is killed as she is about to sell a Van Gogh to pay off a family debt to Fenton Finances. But, I am jumping ahead.
The heroine is Dr. Anna Petrescu – an amazing, beautiful Art Historian and Scholar. She use to work for Sothebys but was fired for reasons you will have to discover. She learns that Bryce Fenton’s real name is Nicu Munteanu, a former body guard for the Ceausescu Regime of Romania. He is a thief and brute and uses Fenton Finances to steal from naive owners of precious art works.
Anna discovers what Fenton’s does and the story takes you around the world as we learn of other murders, secret bank accounts, safe deposit boxes containing millions of dollars – all related to the assassin and customers of Fenton Finances. The assassin is finally told to eliminate Anna. Suffice it to say that Archer is a master story teller and had me turning the pages from beginning to end in one day! (5)
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