when a masterpiece painting by Monet -- suspected to have been part of a great art collection assembled by the Nazis but subsequently destroyed in an ambush -- turns up in Normandy, an expert on the renowned painter's work travels to France to solve the mystery, only to find himself involved in an international art fraud fuelled by hate and a forty-year-old desire for revenge, a desire which has already resulted in at least one murder; maroon cloth, 333 pgs.; light general wear; rubbed dj w/light edgewear, shallow impressions;