The Dreyfus Collection a Novel: The Race to Find Priceless Art Stolen by the Nazis

Lisa Warden is a talented young artist haunted by her fathers disappearance. She was only fourteen in early 1956 when Peter Warden phoned from Europe to let her know he was returning soon. What he hadnt told her was that he the owner of a prestigious Manhattan art gallery had been commissioned by the U.S. government to recover rare and valuable paintings confiscated by the Nazis after their invasion of France in 1940. After that call Lisa never heard from her father again.The paintings had been the family property of Peters friend and client David Dreyfus a Jewish-American businessman with French roots. Prior to the invasion Dreyfus had promised to donate the collection-containing works by Matisse Rembrandt Vermeer and other greats-to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Dreyfus was murdered to conceal the theft. Luckily hed had the foresight to send his wife Sarah and their two young daughters back to the States. The Germans entered Paris a few days later.Years after her fathers disappearance Lisa takes a job with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod. One day quite by chance she meets Sara Dreyfus Davids widow. And soon after Lisa is visited by another seemingly strange coincidence. She learns the truths of her fathers fate and more: Further clues about the paintings may lie within the doomed Italian liner Andrea Doria on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Perhaps not coincidentally Russian fishing trawlers have been congregating in the vicinity of the ship which sank in 1956 the same year that Peter Warden disappeared.As the tension ratchets up Lisa and Sarah become pawns in a high-stakes treasure hunt that spans the globe as they fight to avenge the lives of their loved ones and deliver the family paintings to their rightful home.