Smoke and Mirrors

Narrator Jonathan Sweet, a Santa Fe gallery owner, describes a suspense filled trek from Paris to the shores of Northern California in pursuit of a dedicated group of international art forgers, who have deprived him of his most valuable asset, a painting worth millions. He falls prey to a mysterious woman who appears to blend in and out of the story with unusual deftness. Sweet, a fun loving bachelor, never quite gets the real picture, a picture of Nazi sympathizers and Russian capitalists, who hold the key to the painting's Holocaust history. There are clues he overlooks from beginning to end. From the start, it has been a story of "Smoke and Mirrors."