The Burnt Orange Heresy

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James Figueras is an ambitious art critic whose hunger for recognition is matched by a profound lack of conscience. A wealthy dealer offers him access to a celebrated painter who has withdrawn into the Florida swamps, but the introduction comes with a condition: Figueras must steal one of the recluse’s works. What begins as a career-making opportunity becomes a contest of manipulation among critic, dealer, and artist, with Figueras prepared to cross any moral boundary for possession and prestige. Blending noir, satire, and psychological crime fiction, the novel probes the machinery that creates artistic value and the violence hidden beneath cultivated judgments about authenticity, genius, and ownership.

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