The Modigliani Scandal - Ken Follett [0]
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Introduction
PART ONE - Priming the Canvas
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PART TWO - The Landscape
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PART THREE - Figures in the Foreground
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PART FOUR - The Varnish
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The Modigliani Scandal
A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett,
the grand master of international action and
suspense
A fabulous ″lost masterpiece″ becomes the ultimate prize-for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind the elegance and glamour of the art world, anything goes—theft, forgery, betrayal, and maybe even murder....
PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF KEN FOLLETT
JACKDAWS
″[A] celebration of uncommon courage and unlikely heroes.″
—People
″Great entertainment.″
—The Baltimore Sun
CODE TO ZERO
″Gripping.″
—The New York Times
″This spy thriller is Follett at his best.″
—People
THE HAMMER OF EDEN
″Hammer will nail readers to their seats.″
—People
″Follett ratchets up the Richter scale of suspense.″
—USA Today
THE THIRD TWIN
″Follett really knows how to tell a story.″
—The Atlanta journal-Constitution
″His scenes whip along. And his ending is absolutely smashing.″
—The Virginian-Pilot
A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM
″An altogether entertaining reading experience.″
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
A DANGEROUS FORTUNE
″A terrific page-turner. Careening thrills ... telling historical detail ... genuine surprises.″
—Los Angeles Times
″Relentlessly suspenseful.″
—The New York Times
NIGHT OVER WATER
″An excruciatingly taut drama on the aerial equivalent of the Orient Express ... thoroughly satisfying ... his best since Eye of the Needle.″
—Publishers Weekly
LIE DOWN WITH LIONS
″Sheer suspense.″
—The Washington Post
ʺVintage Follett.... This is his most ambitious novel and it succeeds admirably.... Tense, vivid, excating ... satisfies on deep levels.ʺ
—USA Today
ON WINGS OF EAGLES
″Absolutely electric with suspense.″
—San Francisco Chronicle
″A marvelous, rare, terrific read.... A superb edge-of-the-seat true story that is as exciting as a novel.″
—USA Today
THE MAN FROM ST. PETERSBURG
″Ken Follett has done it once more ... goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini.ʺ
—The New York Time Book Review
THE KEY TO REBECCA
″A top-flight adventure thriller ... violence, intrigue, and exotic passions ... a vivid page-turner.″
—The Wieshington Post
″The most exciting novel in years.″
—The Cincinnati Enquire
TRIPLE
″One of the liveliest thrillers of the year.... Follett is a master of crafty plot and incredible detail.... A sizzling narrative.″
—Time
EYE OF THE NEEDLE
″Really thrilling.″
—The New York Times Book Review
″An absolutely terrific thriller, so pulse-pounding, so ingenious in its plotting, and so frighteningly realistic that you simply cannot stop reading.″
—Publishers Weekly
ALSO BY KEN FOLLETT
The Modigliani Scandal
Paper Money
Eye of the Needle
Triple
The Key to Rebecca
The Man from St. Petersburg
On Wings of Eagles
Lie Down with Lions
The Pillars of the Earth
Night over Water
A Dangerous Fortune
A Place Called Freedom
The Third Twin
The Hammer of Eden
Code to Zero
Jackdaws
SIGNET
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