Summary
Harlan Coben: Vin
WHO LOSES, DIES.
More than twenty years ago, heiress Patricia Lockwood was kidnapped during a robbery of the family estate and then kept locked in a remote cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her jailers – and the items stolen in the robbery have never been found.
Until now. On the Upper West Side, a man's body was found in a top-floor apartment along with two essential items: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials VHL3. For the first time in years, the authorities have a lead - not only in Patricia's kidnapping but also in another unsolved old FBI case - as both the suitcase and the picture point to one man.
Windsor Horne Lockwood III - or Winn, as his few friends call him - does not know how his suitcase and the picture stolen from his family ended up with a dead man. But he begins to wonder, especially when the FBI tells him that the man who kidnapped his sister from his uncle was behind an act of domestic terrorism—and that the conspirators may still be at large. Two cases have puzzled the FBI for decades, but Winn has three things the FBI doesn't: a personal connection to the case, shameless wealth, and a unique sense of justice.
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