Description of the book:

A recently recovered $100,000,000 Willem de Kooning painting and a lost, thousand-year-old Mimbres pottery shard hold the unlikely keys to a missing Paul Gauguin masterpiece. 

One person knows how to unlock the thirty-five-year-old riddle — but art detective and bestselling self-help guru Westin Blackwood must traverse the gauntlet of childhood trauma to solve the case and expose the guilty. Evil and death haunt the people involved,and they will do anything — including murder — to stop Blackwood from discovering their Broken Promises.

About the author:

Dr. Mark Sublette is a former Naval physician and the founder of Medicine Man Gallery (1992), based in Tucson, Arizona. He is a sought-after speaker on Western and Native art, the author of numerous catalogs in the field and is an authority on the artwork of Maynard Dixon. Sublette is a contributor to Western Art Collector magazine, Native American Art magazine and Canyon Road Arts. His latest book, Maynard Dixon’s American West, is a seminal work on the artist’s life, writings, and artwork.