The Shadow Artist: A Novel

A Paperback Original—Also Available as a Simultaneous Hardcover EditionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Goddess of Warsaw comes a suspenseful novel of art, deception, and revenge, a dual-time line story of a contemporary hired killer out to avenge the horrors of World War II.When a paintbrush proves more lethal than a pistol . . .The Shadow Artist is a high-octane blend of love, war, art, and female power. A fearless graffiti artist with a secret identity—known only by the mysterious moniker with which she signs her work, Dirt Bitch—joins forces with a rogue CIA agent to hunt down an elusive female terrorist hired by a prominent neo-Nazi to settle an old score dating back to the Second World War. Their hunt unleashes a deadly and duplicitous game in which art itself becomes the ultimate weapon.A propulsive pursuit of payback and paying it forward, The Shadow Artist pits past against present and reveals how art can be manipulated into a weapon of deception both in the past and today. Read more