Men in Straw Hats: The Story of Vincent, His Curator and the Drug Baron

by Michael Moy

The Vincent van Gogh Foundation has allowed twenty of Vincent's priceless paintings to go on tour while the Amsterdam museum is closed for renovation. Travelling with them is Doctor Christina Jansen, the assistant curator of the collection, a young woman as passionate about Vincent as she is of his art. Carlos Vega, the pope of the resurrected Medellin cocaine cartel, wants to escape his dangerous life before it kills him. But first, as a matter of pride as much as love, he wants to free his errant son from imprisonment in the Netherlands. High over the Andes, these two lives collide...

421 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2002