Long time coming: a novel

✍ Scribed by Robert Goddard

• Publisher: Corgi
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 195 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: London
• ISBN: 0593060261

✦ Synopsis

Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. For nearly four decades, Eldritch Swan has been locked away in an Irish prison and now has been released. Shocked and suspicious, Stephen listens to the old man's story and is caught up in a tale that begins at the dawn of World War II, when Eldritch worked for an Antwerp diamond dealer with a trove of Picassos - that later disappeared. Stephen, who finds his uncle by turns devious, charming, and brazen, then meets Rachel Banner, a beautiful American who may have inherited the Picassos - and is determined to see justice done for her family. Eldritch, Stephen, and Rachel soon find themselves fighting for their lives - against sinister forces still guarding a secret that must never be revealed.

✦ Subjects

Art -- Private collections