Spiral: The Incarnation of Evil

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.

Somewhere along the road, Nicholas Greer got lost. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial British painter he's been researching for the past six years, has become more than real to him than his own.

But the book's finished now. At least it looks that way until Nick gets a call telling him that Spira's ex-lover, a man who went missing twenty-six years ago, a man everyone thought was dead, is in Manhattan, a street person now, an eighty-four-year-old bum.

Tracking Jacob Grossman to a hostel on the Lower East Side, Nick hopes for answers to the unresolved questions. Instead, he gets news of a picture - a painting supposedly executed by Spira in Tangier in 1957, a painting supposedly destroyed. The artist's only religious work, if it existed, the Incarnation would now be worth over six million dollars. If it existed...

An hour after the interview, Jacob Grossman is murdered.

Harried by the New York police, betrayed by his publisher, abandoned by his wife, Nick goes back to his sources and, fact by fact, lie by lie, starts to uncover a flaw in the heart of the Life, a dark seam that runs all the way back to Tangier.

Only as he closes in on the sinister truth, does he realise he too has become the object of someone's scrutiny...a Collector for whom the Incarnation is Spira's greatest achievement.