The Raphael Conspiracy

Logan Ross yanks you inside the cutthroat world of illicit international commerce in art treasures. Annual ten billion dollars in theft, forgeries, laundering, and murder thrive among shady dealers, ruthless collectors.
Is this the greatest art heist of the twenty-first century? Or is the painting only the tip of the iceberg?
Logan Ross must get to the bottom of the secret government investigation, solve and avenge a high-profile murder, unravel and stop a laundering and blackmail scheme, effect the return of a world-class masterpiece, and defend himself and the museum''s alluring aristocratic seductress he is falling for? But attack by local mobsters, then by heavily-armed foreign smugglers off the Maine coast threaten to end Logan''s hopes and both their lives.
Can our man Logan keep up with the mounting odds? Can he keep up with the museum''s irresistible Lindall Winthrop; even while suspecting she may be part of the crime scheme? And when their lives depend on it, as Logan determines to turn tables on the killers, can he depend on her and can she keep up with him?
This thriller takes you inside the cutthroat world of international commerce in art treasures where theft, smuggling, forgeries, deception, and greed thrive among shady dealers and ruthless collectors.
As you come reeling out the back end of this book, you''ll realize you''ve been stunningly entertained and also know a lot of good stuff you maybe didn''t know before.