The Hungarian Gold Train loaded with Jewish treasure. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three amazing and fierce womeneach locked in a struggle against her own history and the history or our times...<br>Maine 2012. An old man id dying with the weight of a plundered necklace on his conscience. As an US Army Captain in 1946 Salburg guarding the 'Hungarian Gold Train' full of looted Jewish treasure he fell in love with camp survivor and helped her escape to Israel. Now as his granddaughter sets out to repatriate the necklace <br>secrets buried in the past are uncoverdstories of love and deceit linked to that beautiful peacock-shaped pendant and to a pricelesslong-lost painting. spanning a century of European and Jewish history from 1913 Budapest to comtemporary Israel and filled with a vivid supporting cast of art dealersfreedom fighterspsychoanalysts <br>and suffragette dwarfs LOVE AND TREASURE is a thrilling moving and haunting novel one that bears an ever elusive question at its core nested like a photograph hidden in a locket: where does the worth of a people and its treasure truly lie?
