Haunted by his inability to stop the murder of a beautiful
young painter twenty years ago, Lucian Glass keeps his
demons at bay through his fascinating work with the FBI's
Art Crime Team. Investigating a crazed collector who's begun
destroying prized masterworks, Glass is thrust into a
bizarre hostage negotiation that takes him undercover at the
Phoenix Foundation—dedicated to the science of past-life
study. There, to maintain his cover, he submits to the
treatment of a hypnotist.Under hypnosis, Glass travels from
ancient Greece to nineteenth-century Persia, while the case
takes him from New York to Paris and the movie while the
case takes him from New York to Paris and the movie capital
of the world. These journeys will change his very
understanding of reality, lead him to question his own
sanity and land him at the center of perhaps the most
audacious art heist in history: a fifteen-hundred-year-old
sculpture the nation of Iran will do anything to recover.