Title: Shadowing Botticelli's beauty
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Intelligence service, United States. Central Intelligence Agency
People: Sandro Botticelli (1444 or 1445-1510)