Bless the Thief Unknown - 1998

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From the family lies he accepts as a child to the masterful art forgeries he creates as an adult, Tom Lynch survives on deceptions -- until his reckless behavior brings him to a confrontation with the truth about his heritage and himself. A gripping literary mystery.

Tom Lynch cherishes two talismans: the story of his father's death in the Hindenburg disaster and the art of Delaquay, a brilliant, notoriously perverse 19th-century illustrator revered by the guardian who raises Tom. As a young art student, Tom is inducted into the secret Delaquay Society and is soon creating impeccable forgeries of Delaquay's illustrations. As his admiration escalates into obsession, he is drawn into a life of debauchery and into a nest of dark, long-buried secrets.

A spellbinding exploration of the relationships between art, artifice, and reality, Bless the Thief introduces a writer who deftly blends the art of literary storytelling with the suspense of popular thrillers.

"(Bless the Thief) is full of passion, charged with a sense of the transforming power of art and with the reality of good and evil...an impressive debut". -- The Observer

"Wall's writing can be luminous in its clarity; and Tom's descent into his own fin de siecle hell of alcoholism and forgery are superbly done". -- The Spectator