MirrorThe last major work of martyr suicide Franklin Koenig before his spectacular self immolation in 1958, MIRROR shows up in Manhattan where it sells for USD23 million: the highest price ever paid for a post war painting. The seller: Linda Carey Koenig's lover in his last tortured months. The buyer: the Modern Art Museum of New York a dynastic institution as secretive as it is incestuous. But as soon as MIRROR enters the collection, questions are raised

______________More love for The Warm Hands of Ghosts

burning paper flowers in front of her shrine and its Yoruba gods

But the secret that awaits them in the lost city is more dangerous still - as a legacy of theft

In Memphis

only a barren

the truth will emerge

Among his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious Eva

during which the fearless Mikey and Livia confront a sprawling cast of pensioners

policemen and criminals including the profoundly sinister man-child The Fat Controller

But what does it matter if people believe in the legend or not

is soon revealed to be much more sinister

Chief Judge of the Hall of Two Truths