Peter Maile treats his readers to another bestseller - a real delicacy that mixes love and glamor, high art and haute cuisine, crime and farce, the south of France and other wonderful places in equal proportions. The main components of the dish: a tyrannical New York editor , famous for booking two tables at once for business lunches; the main villain and fraudster from art; a reckless young photographer who accidentally witnesses a priceless Cezanne painting being loaded into a plumber's van; a charming heroine who looks amazing in a beret. Added to all this taste are art dealers, honest and not so honest, an artist who knows how to brilliantly forge great masters, a ruthless mercenary bandit and legendary chefs, whose lovingly described culinary masterpieces make the novel appetizing as petit fours, and as invigorating as a glass of pastis.