Kindle Edition Amazon Category:  Action/Thriller ISBN-10:  1530979978 Type: Fiction Copyright: April 7, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781530979974 Price: $2.99 (eBook) Lost Art. Murder. A collector who will stop at nothing. In the tradition of Dan Brown and Robert Ludlum's novels, The Brodsky Affair will keep you on the edge of your seat as Ken Fry weaves a tale of murder, mystery and intrigue. LOST ART. MURDER. A COLLECTOR WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING. THE BRODSKY AFFAIR will keep you on the edge of your seat as UK bestselling author, Ken Fry, weaves a tale of murder, mystery and intrigue. Jack Manton, an art dealer, and his partner, Tamsin Greene, did not expect to be targets of assassination attempts. But, when they began to track down the lost paintings of Russian artist, Mikhail Brodsky, now worth millions... that is what happened. An unscrupulous Russian art collector, Berezin, is hot on their trail, and he hires a vicious ex-Soviet agent to follow Manton and use whatever means necessary to steal what he finds. The chase moves from Australia to UK, to Russia and France, as Interpol attempts to unravel a complex trail of murders and art thefts. Jack Manton faces a perilous path of murder and deceit, before Brodsky's last unfinished work is revealed, and its destiny decided at a final confrontation.

Tour the Museums of Europe and kill people.
A thoroughly enjoyable bit of thriller-suspense, this story holds your attention easily. With the added bonus of some Russian art history thrown into the mix. Ken Fry delivers a wonderful story of an artist, Mikhail Brodsky, whose life’s work is now priceless. In fact, the paintings are to die for … as so many in this story keep finding out. With the villains in plain sight, but seemingly beyond the law, what’s a poor art reviewer/appraiser to do? Run for his life. Nice work Ken.

With the narrative often going back to the time of Mikhail, I was at times torn between which story I was enjoying more. I think I would have equally liked this if it had been simply a tale of the young painter’s life in Russia. The hunt for his lost paintings was very well written, reminiscent of a Dan Brown novel. And the relationship struggles of Jack Manton and Tamsin Greene carried well throughout the novel, making you really care about them. Wonderful storytelling in the blending of all of these different elements. But it did make me wonder a bit if you patterned your artist Mikhail after Isaak Brodsky.

As I said, very nice work and an easy five-star review.

What a Fantastic Ride - Action All the Way
This book was a thriller that truly did live up to the genre. From go to whoa, it was a book that carried you along on a tumultuous ride through the high-powered circles of the art elite.
Jack and Tamsin are determined to find and recover all of the lost "Brodsky" painting from the great 20th Century Russian painter who had died in a German Concentration Camp in World War II. Their journey takes them from England, to Australia, to Russia and finally to France, where they encounter wealthy, unprincipled art collectors prepared to kill and do whatever it takes to "own" a Brodsky.
A fantastic book that kept me riveted until the very last page. I will be looking at more from Fry. He is a vastly talented author.

Brooding, sinister, atmospheric....
The feel of this book takes me back to the musty halls of the Hermitage Museum and the iron curtain mentality of the real Russia that still smoulders today. We are expertly pulled into this mood chapter one and never really get to crawl up out of it. The characters and plot – the mystery of Brodsky – kind of tumble in on top of us, abstract and disjointed at first, building and tightening as we crawl through the maze (walk the endless corridors of The Hermitage, the towering portraits of lives past eyeballing us)…. Yes, I found the setting here to be tremendously powerful. The mystery itself is classy and intelligent, and develops into a killer of a finale…. Try this one if you like your art-heist thrillers to be gritty, real, and steeped in history.