EAN: 9780063040885

WOMAN ON FIRE - LISA BARR KARTONIERT (TB)

A New York Times Bestseller Now with Sharon Stone signed on to produce and star in the movie
From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables   a gripping tale of
a young  ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a
Nazi-looted masterpiece?forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession  lovers
and liars  history and truth. After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield  the leading
investigative reporter in Chicago  rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual?and
very secret?assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75
years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work  Woman on Fire .
World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful  mysterious woman
for deeply personal reasons  and has enlisted Dan's help to find it. But Jules doesn't have
much time  the famous designer is dying. Meanwhile  in Europe  provocative and powerful Margaux
de Laurent also searches for the painting. Heir to her art collector family's millions  Margaux
is a cunning gallerist who gets everything she wants. The only thing standing in her way is
Jules. Yet the passionate and determined Jules has unexpected resources of her own  including
Adam Baum  Ellis's grandson. A recovering addict and brilliant artist in his own right  Adam
was once in Margaux's clutches. He knows how ruthless she is  and he'll do anything to help
Jules locate the painting before Margaux gets to it first. A thrilling tale of secrets  love 
and sacrifice that illuminates the destructive cruelty of war and greed and the triumphant
power of beauty and love  Woman on Fire tells the story of a remarkable woman and an exquisite
work of art that burns bright  moving through hands  hearts  and history.

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