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Philip Hook
Book Agent: Michael Sissons
Dramatic Rights: Tim Corrie

Philip Hook is senior director of Sotherby's and appears regularly as pictures expert on BBC TV's The Antiques Road Show. He has the unusual distinction of also having been a director of Christie's, which he joined in 1973 straight from Cambridge University, where he read History of Art and won a soccer blue. In between working at the two auction houses he founded London art dealers the St. James's Art Group.

AN INNOCENT EYE

HODDER & STOUGHTON (5 Oct 00)

A man is gunned down in an exclusive London hotel room. The killer's abandoned jacket yields a single clue: a photograph of a landscape by Monet.

Only Daniel Stern knows the connection. His quest for justice for his family has led him on a bitter journey of discovery across Europe.

To Paris, and the revelation of his grandparents' tragic story during the city's wartime occupation.

To Rome - to Fr Alfonso Cambres, a worldly priest who has something weighing on his conscious.

To a house in the Swiss Alps, where the ultimate restitution must be made.

Stern's task; to reconcile a series of conflicts between past and present, Jew and Catholic, guilt and innocence. But as he approaches his goal, he encounters a woman who presents him with one final terrible dilemma.

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THE SOLDIER IN THE WHEATFIELD

HODDER & STOUGHTON (2 Jul 98)

Parnello Moran buys a German romantic landscape at an auction, but then it's stolen from him. When he sets out to recover it he discovers all its recent owners met violent deaths. Gradually he uncovers a deeper past, and the biggest surprise of all - the secret of the soldier in the wheatfield.

ISBN: 0 340 68216 7

THE ISLAND OF THE DEAD

HODDER & STOUGHTON (7 Sep 95)


THE STONEBREAKERS

HODDER & STOUGHTON (15 Sep 94)

Art dealer Oswald Ginn is sent a photograph of a 19th century masterpiece presumed destroyed in Dresden's bombing. As rumours of the painting's survival spread through the art world, three people are propelled on an international search. While someone sits back and watches.

ISBN: 0 340 60997 4

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