A Great Read

Several days ago I finished reading Daniel Silva’s The Rembrandt Affair and rate it right at the top of good modern novels. It is also right up to the minute with current events. While he doesn’t use the real names of world-famous politicians, the reader knows exactly whom he is writing about. But the story is fiction and required a great deal of research. Silva had his assistants in this category, including his little daughter and little son, who, he says, helped him steal art works from the Louvre. Then he quickly adds, fictionally, of course.

Near the end of the Acknowledgements (which I read first, no matter where located in a book), he lists his friends who supported him socially in the effort. Among them were the names Charles Krauthammer and his wife Robyn. I enjoyed reading this novel more just by knowing Krauthammer must have approved of it.

This book should fascinate art lovers especially, plus those interested in espionage, politics, sabotage, current war, the Holocaust, and related subjects. To its great credit, it is presented with decent language, in fact, lovely language, with colorful characters, more of them men than women, and at several different locations over the world. I recommend it highly.

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