When the owner of the gallery doesn’t want to call the cops, Jack is offered a sizeable sum to keep silent: but when de Groot arrives at the bookshop with his heavy to renege on the deal, all bets are off. With an ease that almost constitutes a gift, Jack Susko finds himself at the centre of a world full of duplicity, lies and art theft.
Lenny Bartulin is the author of A Deadly Business and The Black Russian, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction.