About the book: 2007 / This trip promised to be tiring, but not at all dangerous: Esther Goren went to Chicago to see her father, whom she hardly remembered and about whom she knew little. She could not imagine that she would almost die at the meeting and that her father would be killed before her eyes, that she would have to reveal ominous secrets that had been waiting in the wings since the Second World War, and return to the world the lost masterpiece of the great masters.