None of this, however, distracts Butcher from his overpowering love affair with Marlene, which threatens to leave Hugh stranded in an unforgiving world. Soon the brothers are embroiled in an international crime investigation that eventually comprises forgery, vast sums of money and murder. She is Marlene, wife of Olivier Leibovitz, son and heir to an early 20th-century master. One rain-flooded night, a chic young woman knocks on their door, having lost her way. And since the deaths of his working-class parents, he has also been saddled with his beloved, bedeviling brother, Hugh, who, like Butcher, has a primarily pugilistic relationship with the world. Now divorced and bankrupted by his former wife, who tired of his excesses, Butcher has been reduced to caretaking a remote estate for his largest collector. Butcher Boone is an all-id all-the-time Australian painter of enormous talent and renown. ) returns with a magnificent high-stakes art heist wrapped around a fraternal saga. Two-time Booker-winner Carey ( Oscar and Lucinda
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