The Fake Game

Ethan Shaw is back.

Once a regular army ‘squaddie’, Shaw is refining his talents with a charcoal stick and paintbrush as an art student. And some private detective work on the side. Self-taught and self-sufficient, he is his own man.

This makes him the ideal candidate to infiltrate an art forgery ring – even if he had to be ‘persuaded’ by the police to go undercover or face charges of being an accessory to a cold-case murder.

As Shaw delves ever deeper into the murky underside of the art world (along with his girlfriend Virginia Faulkner), he is confronted by more profound questions than intellectual copyright theft, the fickleness of critical opinion and West End auction house hype: is there any intrinsic difference between an original work and an undetectable copy?

And, more to the point, why is there so much blood on the carpet of Lord Blesdale (aka Gorgeous Gus), the fat, complacent and thoroughly crooked art dealer’s Pall Mall gallery shop? And why is his severed head resting on his chest looking curiously at his feet … ?

For all his artistic side, Ethan Shaw is tough and doesn’t care whose feathers he ruffles as he takes on the art establishment, the police and Gulf-rich billionaires in his classy stride.

About the author:

Anthony Fowles began his artistic career as filmmaker but in time sharpened his focus to concentrate on writing. The success of his first thriller, Dupe Negative, allowed him an eclectic writing life, embracing novels, biography and literary criticism. For Greenwich Exchange he has written studies on John Dryden, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Heller, Jean Rhys and Raymond Chandler.

No of Pages: 186pp

ISBN: 978-1-910996-58-4