An ex-special forces agent and international art-dealer is on the trail of a priceless painting long thought lost. But it is more than just a painting: the Chinese communists are using it as the ingenious means to provoke bloody revolution.
Robert Sampson Elegant (born March 7, 1928) is a British-American author and journalist born in New York City. He spent many years in Asia as a journalist. The Asian settings of all but one of his novels reflect that experience. He covered both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, as well as four or five lesser conflicts.