Shadowing Botticelli's beauty
By: Caleb Ives Bach
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780595506774; 9780595518906; 9780595616084
Subjects: Fiction; Intelligence service; United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Description: During the Cold War, Abel Baaker, a CIA officer in Montevideo, Uruguay, finds a remarkable Renaissance painting in the possession of a Nazi war criminal who was relocated to Uruguay after World War II. When the painting disappears, Baaker uses his agency's resources to discover the provenance of the painting and information about the life of Renaissance painter, Sandro Botticelli to whom the painting is attributed.