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Chaz Wilmot makes his living cranking out old-master parodies for ads and magazine ranges. When he's offered employment restoring a Venetian palace fresco, he's at first, skeptical—he immediately sees it is more a forgery when compared to a restoration. But he's soon seduced by the challenge and throws himself in to the work, performing brilliantly.This feat attracts the interest of Werner Krebs, a shady art dealer who becomes Wilmot's friend and patron. Wilmot is suddenly dealing with a fervor he hasn't felt in years, but unexpectedly, he finds himself reliving occasions from his past—not as thoughts but as if they are really happening all over again. Soon, he believes he can travel back again to the 17th century where he lived as the Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez. Wilmot commences to fantasize that as Velazquez, he has created a masterpiece and when the painting actually turns up, he doesn't know if he painted it or if he imagined the whole lot.Little by little, Wilmot enters a secret world of gangsters, greed and murder, with his mystery patron at the guts of everything, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundred of millions, or as the person who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness.Miraculously inventive, this book cements Gruber's reputation as one of the most imaginative and gifted writers in our time.
