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<p>Art investigator Adam Barrow returns to New York when billionaire Phillip Dansby hires him once again to authenticate a set of Picasso drawings. The search becomes secondary when Dansby uncovers a story about a scandalous painting by Diego Velazquez that was supposedly destroyed by the Catholic Church 400 years ago.</p><p>Or was it?</p><p>Considered by many as the greatest artist who ever lived Velazquez's lost painting may be a fairytale or an incalculable treasure-if it survived the Church's wraith.</p><p>The enigma draws them to Madrid where Adam's plea for help is rebuffed by Elena Echevarria an enchanting curator at The Prado who distrusts his motives. Accompanied by Tomas Navarro a cartel hit man hired by Dansby as a bodyguard Adam forms a partnership with a renegade Catholic priest who draws him into Madrid's gypsy community. An unscrupulous Spanish shipping magnate with an insatiable thirst for Velazquez's work threatens Adam who finds himself also tracked by a pair of killers with an old score to settle with Dansby.</p><p>With no clues about the painting's whereabouts or its forbidden subject Adam faces increasing doubts and the knowledge that someone wants him dead.</p>