How to impress galleries

Ethan Muller, son of good family and renowned art dealer but jaded, stumbles, a work out standards and found an unknown artist: Victor Cracke. Cartons containing hundreds of drawings which, put together, form a huge and disturbing work of art. Ethan decides to expose them. It is then contacted by a retired police officer who taught him some of portrait drawings represent the faces of children murdered in the past. Chance? How he was able Victor Cracke to link these murders remained unsolved. Is he the murderer?
Ethan will go in search of Victor, the truth and the outcome, also discover his own, that of the Muller family.

A preliminary observation: it seems it is no longer possible to read a single novel without falling on the same structure, namely a main and around narrative, a story (here dubbed interlude) that the tangent and comes to join in the end . This is also the case in this book. In addition, this story has a few lengths eroding some interest towards the middle of the book.

Whatever. Apart from these details, the book is remarkable. And if we get impatient at a time, it is because we are caught up in the story and we want to know as soon as possible, to find Victor.

For if Ethan knows professional success, he is not satisfied with his life and he will enjoy his quest to give it meaning. It goes well, throughout his journey, to question its morality (we can present the work of a possible criminal?), His loves, his relationship with his father '

The book also exhibits an interesting vision of the world of contemporary art. There are of course some very funny moments, especially in the middle of snobbery and taste of the new rich. But it is especially the fact that Ethan sees itself as an art dealer, as an integral part of the artistic process. The contemporary artist who makes "things", realizes that some work. Then you need to turn these merchants "things" into "art" and once spent, no turning back: we can destroy but not un-create.

Highly recommended.