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Five Days in Bogotá
A fast-paced art thriller in the spirit of Gabriel Allon from the Daniel Silva thriller series and Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me.
Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in 1990. She needs to meet wealthy collectors to boost her gallery’s sales and save her family from bankruptcy. When she discovers her art crates have been tampered with and two paintings worth millions—that do not belong to her gallery—have been placed inside, her plans unravel. Chief among her problems is US Political Attaché David Martinez, an ex-boyfriend and former colleague from her posting with the State Department in Santiago. He attempts to drag her into a scheme to sell paintings seized from drug lords at an art auction and use the proceeds to fund a war Congress will not approve. Ally refuses. She devises a strategy to thwart their fraud, protect her children, and secure her family’s future—but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.
Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in 1990. She needs to meet wealthy collectors to boost her gallery’s sales and save her family from bankruptcy. When she discovers her art crates have been tampered with and two paintings worth millions—that do not belong to her gallery—have been placed inside, her plans unravel. Chief among her problems is US Political Attaché David Martinez, an ex-boyfriend and former colleague from her posting with the State Department in Santiago. He attempts to drag her into a scheme to sell paintings seized from drug lords at an art auction and use the proceeds to fund a war Congress will not approve. Ally refuses. She devises a strategy to thwart their fraud, protect her children, and secure her family’s future—but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.
304 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2024
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Linda Moore
2 books151 followersA recovering gallery owner, traveler and writer, Linda Moore uses her experiences in her writing. After studying and earning degrees at the University of California, Stanford and University of Washington (whew!), she spent time as a hospital administrator until she turned her love of art into a business and opened an art gallery. Drawing upon a year studying at Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, she focused the gallery's art on contemporary Hispanic art, especially from the southern cone of South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile).
She continued traveling after she closed the gallery and has been to all seven continents multiple times and has visited over 100 countries.
She lives with her husband in San Diego and takes refuge when she can in beautiful Kauai where they have a cottage.
She continued traveling after she closed the gallery and has been to all seven continents multiple times and has visited over 100 countries.
She lives with her husband in San Diego and takes refuge when she can in beautiful Kauai where they have a cottage.
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