Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History

When Lucas, a down at heel New Yorker, catches a glimpse of a woman in a small Spanish town, his life takes a radical turn. His only link to her is the man who was with her at the time. He is a financier involved in a plot to get hold of all the great art of Europe and replace it by copies.The story becomes an intricate puzzle in which Lucas trails the man and winds up arrested for his murder. He is on death row in a US prison when the woman finds him and saves him."Intense passion," "artistic elegance", are two ways the reviewers have characterized it in many enthusiastic reviews.Koning, Hans is the author of 'Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History', published 1997 under ISBN 9780967690315 and ISBN 0967690315.