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In the world of priceless art, greed and egos collide-- anything goes, at any price
The world of priceless art is a playground for billionaires, a rarefied atmosphere even more privileged and ruthless than owning a champion race horse or a sports team. Money and ego have turned the quest for art into a deadly business in which the superrich battle to possess the rarest and most beautiful objets d'art on Earth.
Sammu-ramat: Queen of Babylon. The first warrior queen in history, called by some the Whore of Babylon. Her golden death mask left a legacy of lust and violence to those who fought to possess it.
Madison Dupre: curator for the billion-dollar Piedmont collection. She fights for her career, her freedom--and her life--after she acquires the fifty-five-million-dollar golden mask of the long dead Babylonian queen.
Coby Lewis: an ex-Navy SEAL, who uses his frogman training to dive for sunken treasure. Madison knows she can't trust him... but she also can't resist him.
Abdul ibn Hussein: His father died protecting the golden mask from thieves. Abdul said that the mask was stolen when the Baghdad museum was looted as American troops entered the city. He also claims that Navy SEALs worked with Iraqis to loot the museum.
New York, London, Zurich, and Malaga are the venues as the heat is turned on Madison--and she goes on the run to clear her name and save her life.
Synopsis
Money and ego turn the quest for art into a deadly business in which the super-rich battle to possess the rarest and most beautiful "objet d'art" on Earth: the golden death mask of the Queen of Babylon.
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Museum curator Madison Dupre has acquired the golden death mask of Semiramis, an ancient Babylonian queen with an insatiable lust for power and sex. The three-thousand-year-old mask, legend says, has spawned evil over the millennia.
Madison is proud to have brought the gorgeous mask to her museum despite rumors that it was looted from an Iraqi museum by the US Army. Then the mask is stolen and Madison, framed for murder, is forced to go on the run.
Stalked by killers, betrayed by people she thought were her friends, she struggles to stay alive in a growing whirlpool of intrigue. Her odyssey of danger takes her to London, Zurich, and Málaga and into the arms of a handsome soldier of fortune who might be able to keep Madison alive long enough to prove her innocence and recover the fabled death mask.'
Synopsis
Museum curator Madison Dupre has acquired the golden death mask of Semiramis, an ancient Babylonian queen with an insatiable lust for power and sex. The three-thousand-year-old mask, legend says, has spawned evil over the millennia.
Madison is proud to have brought the gorgeous mask to her museum despite rumors that it was looted from an Iraqi museum by the US Army. Then the mask is stolen and Madison, framed for murder, is forced to go on the run.
Stalked by killers, betrayed by people she thought were her friends, she struggles to stay alive in a growing whirlpool of intrigue. Her odyssey of danger takes her to London, Zurich, and Málaga and into the arms of a handsome soldier of fortune who might be able to keep Madison alive long enough to prove her innocence and recover the fabled death mask.
About the Author
Born in New York City, HAROLD ROBBINS is one of the world's bestselling authors, writing novels that often mirrored his own experiences and that were peopled by characters he had met.
JUNIUS PODRUG was selected by the Robbins Estate to carry on the ideas, uncompleted works, and tradition of Harold Robbins because he was both a friend of Harold's and a writer whose books Harold admired. He is the author of Harold Robbins' Blood Royal and The Devil to Pay.