on Mar 24th, 2006Jeffery Archer False Impression (9/11 - Old Lady = Van Gogh)
iPods are sleek, hip, and a nice addition to your social life. Research has also pointed out that they may be hazardous to your hearing. The little white buds that go into your ears direct a high volume of sound directly on the ear drums which are not meant to be played upon as if Buddy Rich were performing one of his solos.
Losing your hearing is one thing, but to lose an ear itself, that is the province of mafia movies and Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. The novelist Jeffery Archer looked at this painting and was inspired to write a mystery novel - one that keeps you awake at night, flipping the pages, desperate to know why someone would murder an aristocratic old lady.
Would you be willing to risk your life to steal this painting? Find out who would…
Read an excerpt from False Impression
False Impression
by Jeffrey Archer
When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her death and a priceless Van Gogh, which is stolen that night.
But in the end, it is a courageous young woman who escapes from North Tower of the World Trade Center after the first plane crashes into the building, who has the foresight and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady’s death.
The young woman, Anna Petrescu, takes advantage of being missing and presumed dead in the days after 9/11 to escape from New York City, only to be pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless assassin across the globe, from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest. But it is only when she finally returns to New York that the mystery unravels.
In his first thriller since The Eleventh Commandment, international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a breathtaking journey, full of twists and turns, all leading back to the question of why so many people are willing to risk their lives to own Van Gogh’s Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear. And it’s not just because it could be worth one hundred million dollars.