Spiral (Joseph Geary)
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Joseph Geary
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Nicholas Greer is broke and on the verge of divorce. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial British painter hes been researching for six years, has become more real to him than his own. But the book is finished nowa nine-hundred-page monument and the definitive biography. At least it looks that way until Nick gets a
call telling him that one of Spiras ex-lovers, Jacob Grossman, a man who went missing twenty-six years ago, has been spotted in Manhattan, eighty-four years old and homeless.
Nick tracks Grossman to a hostel, hoping to find answers to the few niggling questions that remain. Instead he gets news of a picture, a work created by Spira in Tangier in the fall of 1957, which the artist supposedly destroyed. If it existed, Incarnation, Spiras only religious work, would now be worth a small fortune.
An hour after the interview, Jacob Grossman is brutally murdered, and Nick finds himself drawn into aback to his sources, he uncovers a series of lies, secrets, and disturbing behavior, and begins to make out a flaw running through Spiras life, a dark seam that leads all the way back to Tangier. Only as Nick comes to understand the significance of what Spira achieved with Incarnation does he realize that he too is the object of someones scrutiny, a collector for whom the missing work is Spiras crowning achievement.
Moving between London, New York, and Tangier,Spiralunfolds in the bizarre and sinister underbelly of the art world. Intricately plotted and deeply atmospheric, it is a relentlessly suspenseful story"about-readmatter">
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