Somewhere Nicholas Greer got lost. The life of Frank Spira,the controversial British painter he's been researching for the past six years, has become more real to him than his own.

Then comes the call that changes Nick's life for ever. Spira's ex-lover, a man who went missing years ago, a man everyone thought was dead, has been found in Manhattan.
Tracking Jacob Grossman to a hostel for down-and-outs, Nick Hopes for answers to the unresolved questions. Instead, he gets news of a picture - a painting supposedly executed by Spira in Tangier in 1957. If it existed, The Incarnation would be worth over $ 6 million. If it existed ...

An hour later, Jacob Grossman is murdered.
Nick goes back to his sources and, fact by fact, lie by lie, starts to uncover a flaw in the heart of Frank Spira's life, a dark seam that runs all the way back to Tangier. But as he closes in on the horrifying truth, he realises he too has become the object of someone's scrutiny . . . a Collector for whom The Incarnation is Spira's greatest achievement.

'A compulsive and disturbing journey into darkness' PA UL EDDY