A truly entertaining and original story of Sabina Ferguson, a young and attractive American urologist, who comes face to face with her aristocratic origins while vacationing in Hungary with her husband Henry, a lovable computer geek. Sabina’s former countess grandma demands that Sabina recovers a multimillion dollar worth of painting stolen from the family by a Red Army general in 1945. Sabina must outwit Jurij, the son of that general and presently a Russian billionaire and an international art dealer who is looking for an American woman lover. Jurij has the painting and offers Sabina a business deal to forge lost masterpieces and sell them to collectors on the black market as originals. To produce the first fake copy, Jurij takes Sabina to his castle in the Carpathian wilderness where she must pose in the nude for a famed art restaurateur. Sabina steals the original and from the towering peaks down a timber chute and a raging river, the chase is on. Sabina is captured, sold into white slavery, ends up in the harem a Libyan oil sheik while her computer geek husband Henry is committed to a mental institute.When things cannot possibly get any worse, Sabina is rescued by the help of Hannah, a young pastry shop clerk from Jerusalem and another kidnapped target of the North African sex trade who calls in the special hostage rescue commandos of the Israeli Defense Forces and all ends well.Former professional engineer and real estate investor turned fiction writer, Larry Serfozo is the author of sixteen novels and three volumes of short stories. He lives in Florida and has a second home in Darien, Connecticut. In this novel Larry revisits the plundering of European fine arts during and after WW II and the rape of the treasures of the deposed aristocracy and independent intelligentsia and the reappearance of lost masterpieces in the contemporary illegal art markets.
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Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 229 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.58 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. zk1796287237
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