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?

傑弗裏·阿徹是世界上作品最暢銷的作傢之一。

傑弗裏·阿徹生於1940年。在當今英國，有著近乎傳奇般生活經曆的他算得上是一位不摺不扣的明星。迄今，阿徹已創作瞭《末代沙皇聖像之謎》《天之驕子》等十多部小說，幾乎每一部作品都暢銷整個英語世界。阿徹曾11次榮登《星期日泰晤士報》暢銷作者排名榜第一位，他的作品為他帶來瞭巨大的經濟收益和聲譽。1992年女王誕辰紀念日，阿徹受封為爵位不能世襲的終身貴族，這也是對他成就的承認。截至2000年，阿徹小說在全球的總銷量已經超過1.2億冊。著名的麥剋米蘭公司在2002年鞦季成為阿徹的齣版商後，單他的小說就已經賣掉瞭一百多萬冊。