The icon thief - Alec Nevala-Lee

A controversial masterpiece resurfaces in Budapest. A ballerina's headless corpse is found beneath the boardwalk at Brighton Beach. And New York's Russian mafia is about to collide with the equally ruthless art world. Maddy Blume, an ambitious young art buyer for a Manhattan hedge fund, is desperate to track down a priceless painting by Marcel Duchamp. The discovery of a woman's decapitated body thrusts criminal investigator Alan Powell into a search for the same painting,A Russian thief and assassin must steal the painting first to save his life.