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A Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2011 Fiction and a Library Journal Best Mystery of 2011What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con job, he takes a risk that forces him back to the city he loved and left behind: Paris. There he assembles his team of con artists for their final and most ambitious theft, one that will enable them to leave the game forever: The Mona Lisa. When a member of the team turns up missing, and Mr. Hart shows up in Paris, Valfierno and his crew must stay one step ahead of a relentless police inspector, endure a devastating flood, and conquer their own doubts to keep the priceless painting in play and survive. Based on the actual theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, Stealing Mona Lisa is a sophisticated, engaging caper, complete with a richly imagined group of con artists and a historical mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end."

In his follow up to his award-winning novel, STEALING MONA LISA, Carson Morton takes us on a thrilling race through war-torn France as French patriots attempt to keep Leonardo d Vinci's masterpiece out of the hands of the rapacious Nazis.In the opening days of World War II, 15-year-old Delphine Fournier is abandoned by her museum curator father when he spirits the Mona Lisa out of Paris ahead of the advancing German army. Four years later, news of her father's arrest for murder in a village in the South of France forces 19-year-old Delphine to escape occupied Paris in an attempt to save him and to keep the world's greatest painting out of the clutches of a cunning Nazi agent.

(from the award-winning author of STEALING MONA LISA - "...a masterful storyteller." New York Journal of Books). When a fire breaks out in an antique shop in New York City, scores of old metal toy soldiers come to life and make a daring escape. But that's only the beginning of their adventures. Threatened from every direction, they make their way to the wilds of Central Park hoping to find the only person who can help them, a young boy who comes to visit them every day after school. But first, they must run a gauntlet of belligerent squirrels and pigeons determined to destroy them. This leads to a final showdown at the Alice in Wonderland Statue where the boy and the soldiers face an even greater danger.