{"product_id":"provenance-john-delacourt-9781990496103","title":"Provenance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1993. Christina Perretti, working as an investigator with Interpol's new art crimes unit out of Rome, discovers, through the recovery of a lost Egon Schiele painting in Moscow, a cache of notes from a notorious Berlin art dealer for the Nazis, Harry Maes. The notes are addressed to his son Nikolaus, but they concern the provenance of a number of paintings believed to have been in Maes's possession at the time of his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Perretti seeks to recover these works, all presumed to be stolen from Jewish families during the Second World War, she discovers a decades-old plot to save some of the Vatican's greatest treasures from the Nazis and a web of intrigue and murder involving those seeking to profit from the burgeoning grey and black markets in the former Eastern Bloc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProvenance\u003c\/em\u003e pieces together one family's legacy, what was lost and recovered at the moment once thought to mark the end of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Provenance is a novel that reads like the best trade non-fiction. It is thoroughly researched, entirely plausible and feels like it could be a true story. There are treasures stolen by, and hidden from, the Nazis still out there, waiting to be found. Here's an intelligent classic-in-the-making on just that theme.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Dr Noah Charney, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest-selling author of The 12-Hour Art Expert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Delacourt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1990496105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781990496103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ace of Swords Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d","brand":"John Delacourt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138855268607,"sku":"9781990496103","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_905a3389-1ca1-4090-86b1-4980f8522732.jpg?v=1687901777","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/provenance-john-delacourt-9781990496103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}