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Adam Jonas, the CEO of a young, thriving bio-tech company who is also an ardent art collector, makes often the rounds of the New York art galleries on weekends. During the next one, in the company of his young paramour, Carmen Travejo, an art historian and museum curator, she discovers, very astutely, that the Lefebre gallery is selling contemporary fakes by big name artists as masterpieces.
In his attempt to learn more about this latest art crime, Adam finally bags himself not only an important Nazi war criminal but a Mafia killer and drug dealer as well and, finally... his old foe Ted...

Stories My Mother Never Told Me are stories dealing with human emotions ranging from greed, to compassion, spite, friendship, a relationship turned sour, competition, unbridled passion, loneliness and dependency.

As Wiesenthal explains it to Adam, this time it involves a collection of valuable 16th Century Dutch paintings that Hitler confiscated in 1942 (for the museum he planned to build in his birthplace Linz, in Austria) from a Dutch Jewish art dealer in exchange for safe conducts that allowed the dealer and a small group of his friends and relatives to leave Nazi occupied Holland for Switzerland.. The location of the paintings remained unknown, till one surfaced, unexpectedly, in 1984, to be sold at Christie's in New York. The consigner, upon discrete inquiry, is Ted Barnum, the same person who...