The Brutal Art

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Sphere
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: Reprint

Description: 404 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. An Elderly Artist Disappears Leaving Behind A Huge Collection Of Brilliant Paintings. Art Dealer Ethan Muller Realizes This Is A Discovery Of A Lifetimeand Watches As Their Value Goes Up. But Then The Police Arrive And It Begins To Look Like Evidence Rather Than Art.

Publishers Description: Ethan Muller is struggling to establish his reputation as a dealer in the cut-throat world of contemporary art when he is alerted to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: in a decaying New York slum, an elderly tenant has disappeared, leaving behind a staggeringly large trove of original drawings and paintings. Nobody can tell Ethan much about the old man, except that he came and went in solitude for nearly forty years, his genius hidden and unacknowledged. Despite the fact that, strictly speaking, the artwork doesnt belong to him, Ethan takes the challenge and makes a name for the old man - and himself. Soon Ethan has to congratulate himself on his own genius: for storytelling and salesmanship. But suddenly the police are interested in talking to him. It seems that the missing artist had a nasty past, and the drawings hanging in the Muller Gallery have begun to look a lot less like art and a lot more like evidence. Sucked into an investigation four decades cold, Ethan will uncover a secret legacy of shame and death, one that will touch horrifyingly close to home - and leave him fearing for his own life.

ISBN: 9781847441546