- Gebundene Ausgabe: 320 Seiten
- Verlag: William Morrow (1. März 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1557043043
- ISBN-13: 978-1557043047
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,7 x 16,2 x 2,9 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
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Imagine if Tom Clancy used high art as a plot vehicle instead of advanced technology; if instead of tracking rogue Russian submarines, Jack Ryan were on the trail of international art thieves. This is the twist Thomas Swan provides in The Cézanne Chase, a novel set in an art world where the stakes are just as high, and the operatives just as ruthless, as in the more familiar crime-fiction universe of espionage and nuclear weapons.
The Cézanne of the title refers to two self-portraits by that painter that are destroyed in an attempt to manipulate the black market in art. In addition to the usual collection of good guys and bad guys, exotic locations and tricky double-crosses, The Cézanne Chase also offers some pretty nifty insights into the nitty-gritty of buying, selling, preserving--and destroying--great works of art.
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This second in Swan's art-world series offers some genre staples: passion, greed on an international scale, and background information on a fascinating vocation. The series debut, a paperback original called The Da Vinci Deception (1990), involved forgery. This time, a psychopath uses pharmaceutical skills to demolish Cezanne's self-portraits. Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Jack Oxby tracks the villain to Aix-en-Provence, where a Cezanne show--and a showdown--will take place. Swan, who knows the art world, has created the components of a good thriller, but the assemblage, unfortunately, is flat. Both detective and investigation are thinly developed, his villain is too predictable, and the book fails to do what this sort of thriller must: so involve us in the art that we feel and fear for its loss. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Cezanne Chase will benefit from a strong premise and aggressive marketing, but as a suspense novel, it's disappointingly suspense free. Buy as demand dictates. Gail Pool
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I really wanted to like this book, but I found it hard to get through. The villains are identified early in the book, so the mystery element disappears. The characters are all so serious that there is no humor. I realize it is not a comedy, but a light moment here or there would make the characters seem human. What an unbelievably dreary collection of people. The technical elements seem to be correct if that is what you are looking for.
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Where is the mystery?
22. November 1999
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I really wanted to like this book, but I found it hard to get through. The villains are identified early in the book, so the mystery element disappears. The characters are all so serious that there is no humor. I realize it is not a comedy, but a light moment here or there would make the characters seem human. What an unbelievably dreary collection of people. The technical elements seem to be correct if that is what you are looking for.
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Decent art related crime drama
10. November 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Thomas Swan's "The Cezanne Chase" was an average offering of intrigue surrounding the acid mutilation of four priceless self portraits rendered by the French impressionist Paul Cezanne.
The novel, in part, focuses on Edwin Llewellyn a wealthy New York bon vivant who serves as a trustee on museum boards. Llewellyn owns one of Cezanne's self portraits courtesy of an inheritance from his granfather who purchase the work from the artist's agent. He is shocked as well as all of those in the art world to learn of the destruction of 2 of Cezanne's paintings in London's National Gallery and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
These crimes are being perpetrated by story heavy, the Norwegian born, football player statured Peder Aukrust. Aukrust a psychopath with extensive backgrounds in both pharmacology and chemistry is acting at the behest of a wealthy purveyor of the arts. Using potions and solutions to dispatch both paintings and people standing in his way, Aukrust is acting to ostensibly drive up the value of the remaining works of Cezanne. Aukrust's cohort and sometimes lover, an attractive platinum blonde with a drug habit Astrid Haraldsen is gaining the trust of Llewellyn posing as an interior decorator. They have designs on Llewellyn's self portrait.
When a third Cezanne is destroyed at a wealthy private collector Alan Pinkster's gallery Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Detective Chief Inspector Jack Oxby is summoned to investigate the crime wave. Along with the acid destruction of the Cezanne piece, the director of the gallery has been murdered, poisoned by the fumes of a rare noxious chemical solution.
The novel progresses with the further destruction of art work and attempts to steal other works against the backdrop of an unprecedented Cezanne exhibition scheduled for Aix-en-Provence, France.
Swan's effort lacks any major suspense as we figure that Oxby will prevail against the devious plan authored by Aukrust. The identity of the benefactor of Aukrust's plan is fairly obvious. Swan's conclusion to the tale is both abrupt and unsatisfying
The novel, in part, focuses on Edwin Llewellyn a wealthy New York bon vivant who serves as a trustee on museum boards. Llewellyn owns one of Cezanne's self portraits courtesy of an inheritance from his granfather who purchase the work from the artist's agent. He is shocked as well as all of those in the art world to learn of the destruction of 2 of Cezanne's paintings in London's National Gallery and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
These crimes are being perpetrated by story heavy, the Norwegian born, football player statured Peder Aukrust. Aukrust a psychopath with extensive backgrounds in both pharmacology and chemistry is acting at the behest of a wealthy purveyor of the arts. Using potions and solutions to dispatch both paintings and people standing in his way, Aukrust is acting to ostensibly drive up the value of the remaining works of Cezanne. Aukrust's cohort and sometimes lover, an attractive platinum blonde with a drug habit Astrid Haraldsen is gaining the trust of Llewellyn posing as an interior decorator. They have designs on Llewellyn's self portrait.
When a third Cezanne is destroyed at a wealthy private collector Alan Pinkster's gallery Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Detective Chief Inspector Jack Oxby is summoned to investigate the crime wave. Along with the acid destruction of the Cezanne piece, the director of the gallery has been murdered, poisoned by the fumes of a rare noxious chemical solution.
The novel progresses with the further destruction of art work and attempts to steal other works against the backdrop of an unprecedented Cezanne exhibition scheduled for Aix-en-Provence, France.
Swan's effort lacks any major suspense as we figure that Oxby will prevail against the devious plan authored by Aukrust. The identity of the benefactor of Aukrust's plan is fairly obvious. Swan's conclusion to the tale is both abrupt and unsatisfying
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