Publisher's Synopsis
In 2017, 'Salvator Mundi' by Leonardo Da Vinci set a world record by selling for $450m, the highest ever paid for a work of art. Although it was the only Leonardo known to be owned privately, the image was only thought to be part-painted by the master and it had only been rediscovered in 2005 at a Pennsylvania auction. The author shows that this was only a small detail in its convoluted, far stranger history, which involves Donald Trump's election campaign, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader MBS, Swiss investigators, and Monaco's football czar, a Russian oligarch.
