Search and Deception : Swan Publishers : 9781736682722 : 1736682725 : 18 Oct 2022 : Brian O'Sullivan, an art history professor, learns he was adopted after finding letters sent by his birth mother sixty years earlier. Filled with emotion, he decides to find her, hoping Katrina is still alive. But before Brian begins his search, he is summoned to Europe by his Interpol team to solve a WWII art theft mystery. Keeping his role as an Interpol agent a secret from his wife, he heads to Amsterdam and investigates the diary of a Nazi SS officer embossed with the initials "KvR." As Brian's team looks for clues to where the art stolen by the Gestapo is hidden, it's suggested the diary may have belonged to Karl von Richter, the Nazi who fell in love with his mother Katrina before the war. The Interpol team searches old churches and former mosques in Andalusia to look for the hidden paintings. Soon Brian's search for his elderly mother takes him to Italy and on a harrowing path through anguish, in