Woman with Eyes Closed

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>By slow and steady degrees Matthiessen takes all the familiar elements of the standard heist thriller and transforms them into something more.... A riveting and richly nuanced art-crime novel.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>   </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>~<em>Kirkus Reviews</em> (starred review)</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On a full moon night in Rotterdam three Dutch thieves break into the Kunsthal museum and steal four paintings-including two Monets a Picasso and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Woman with Eyes Closed</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Inspired by the real 2012 art heist this literary thriller follows British MI-6 agent Kit Hobbs who is unexpectedly assigned to the case. A tip leads him to Sagaponack New York where the Monets may be hidden in the bunker of a Russian mobster with a beach house-and a taste for stolen masterpieces.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Just down the beach Perrin Clayton-daughter of a once-famous abstract expressionist painter-is newly married to art-world superstar Jack Triplett. Their glamorous Hamptons life dazzles from the outside but something vital is missing. When Kit whose connection is Jack's gallerist meets Perrin at a party in the Russian's home he notices the mobster's fascination with her-and devises a risky plan to draw her into his investigation.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>​</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meanwhile the thieves are on the run their alliance unraveling. As Kit and Perrin are pulled deeper into each other's lives and a hurricane barrels toward the coast the fate of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Woman with Eyes Closed</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> hangs in the balance-along with their own uncertain futures.</span></p>