Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller. When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death - a priceless Van Gogh painting. It's a young woman in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building who has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady's death. Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her new status to escape from America, only to be pursued across the world from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives and others' to own the Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear?

杰弗里·阿彻是世界上作品最畅销的作家之一。

杰弗里·阿彻生于1940年。在当今英国，有着近乎传奇般生活经历的他算得上是一位不折不扣的明星。迄今，阿彻已创作了《末代沙皇圣像之谜》《天之骄子》等十多部小说，几乎每一部作品都畅销整个英语世界。阿彻曾11次荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销作者排名榜第一位，他的作品为他带来了巨大的经济收益和声誉。1992年女王诞辰纪念日，阿彻受封为爵位不能世袭的终身贵族，这也是对他成就的承认。截至2000年，阿彻小说在全球的总销量已经超过1.2亿册。著名的麦克米兰公司在2002年秋季成为阿彻的出版商后，单他的小说就已经卖掉了一百多万册。