Vanishing Half "A frank novel about a

"A frank novel about a midlife awakening

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Ceremony is a work of enduring power

who arrives nine years too late

all while smuggling the Renaissance masterpieces and the bag full of ancient Greek gold they have rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans

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