False impression

The September 11, 2001, attacks, art collectors and experts, wealthy businessmen, corrupt individuals, cold-blooded killers, the FBI... Everything blends brilliantly in "The Misrepresentation," the new novel by Jeffrey Archer—one of the world's biggest book sellers, "a master entertainer" (Time), and "arguably the greatest storyteller of our time" (Mail on Sunday). The New York Times calls his works "ingeniously plotted, insinuatingly styled... Archer plays cat and mouse with the reader." In "The Misrepresentation," Anna Petrescu is one of the best art appraisers in New York. The only problem is that she works for con man Bryce Fenston, a Romanian immigrant who conquered the city's business world through illicit transactions. Besides doing everything solely for money, Fenston has an unbridled passion for art. To get his hands on the rarest paintings, he enlists the help of Leapman, a crooked lawyer responsible for Fenston's dirty work, and Krantz, a friend from their time as collaborators with the former Romanian dictator Ceausescu. Her task is to provide the paintings with the utmost security... and the worst possible end for their former owners. When Anna Petrescu started working at Fenston Finance, she was unaware of what her boss might be capable of. However, the appraisal of Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Van Gogh's last painting, belonging to a traditional English family, holds a mystery that will change her entire view of the limits of Fenston's greed. The story gains a thrilling adrenaline rush with the explosion of the Twin Towers, sparking a dizzying race for Anna's survival and the preservation of the Van Gogh. The FBI's involvement only hinders the appraiser's plans and further tense the already crazed Fenston, sparking a deadly manhunt that will also span London, Bucharest, Moscow, and Tokyo. Jeffrey Archer's "The False Impression" surprises with every page and leaves the reader breathless. The novelist constructs a perfectly interwoven narrative, a detective novel and, quite literally, an artistic one, in which the outcome is a desperate, unavoidable necessity.