THE PICASSO AFFAIR, the fifth book in the Dean & Derringer Fine Art Mystery series finds the recovery team traveling through Western Europe in search of a missing Picasso canvas while being pursued by an assassin hired by their nemesis, billionaire Roland D. Put. Pitted against a crime syndicate specializing in art theft headed by the mysterious Spider, they must somehow find and return the missing painting while avoiding the assassin. Tagging along with Dean and Derringer is Lindsey's twenty-one year old niece, a young woman on the loose and looking for fun. Trouble? Lot's of it, but that's the norm for these recovery agents. How they unknot the tangled threads makes for an exciting and satisfying conclusion.