Book description
Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our
generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller. When an aristocratic
old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11,
it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the
connection between her and the possible motive for her death - a
priceless Van Gogh painting. It's a young woman in the North Tower when
the first plane crashed into the building who has the courage and
determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady's
death. Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses
her new status to escape from America, only to be pursued across the
world from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it
is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. Why are
so many people willing to risk their own lives and others' to own the
Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear? Biographies Jeffrey Archer,
whose bestselling novels span from Not a Penny More , Not a Penny Less
to Kane and Abel and The Eleventh Commandment, has sold over 120 million
books throughout the world. The author is married with two children.
