Nicholas Greer is a writer who s broke and on the verge of divorce. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial painter he s been researching for six years, has become more real to him than his own. Nick has just finished writing his book when he gets a call telling him that one of Spira s closest friends, Jacob Grossman, a man who went missing twenty-six years ago, has been spotted in Manhattan.
Nick tracks Grossman down, hoping to find answers to the few niggling questions that remain. Instead he gets news of a work created by Spira, which the artist supposedly destroyed. If it existed,...