The Biltmore's Mona Lisa

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Author and Military Historian Daniel Smith brings to life this thrilling art heist in his historical fiction novel <em>The Biltmore's Mona Lisa</em>.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>In 1941 France's national treasure Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting was moved to the Biltmore House near Asheville North Carolina for safekeeping.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>German General Hermann Goring hears about this move and sends a special Luftwaffe detachment to America by U-boat.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Their mission is to break out a German art expert from an American POW camp and continue to Asheville to steal the Mona Lisa leaving a masterful forgery in its place.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Unbeknownst to the Nazis a second scoundrel has a similar plan in place. However while his wealth may provide him with the resources to succeed his greed may be his undoing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Will this villainy succeed? Only a disabled Army Air Corps captain and a French art curator from the Louvre stand in their way...</span></p><p></p>