by Michael Frayn (Author), Michael Frayn (Author)
Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, sees a chance of a lifetime: to perform a great public service, and to make his professional reputation. To obtain the treasure he thinks he has identified involves him setting up a classic sting and risking everything that is valuable to him.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 394
Edition: 1st Paperback Printing
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 23 Aug 1999
ISBN 10: 0571201423
ISBN 13: 9780571201471
Prizes: Shortlisted for British Science Fiction Association Award 2000 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1999 and Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1999.