MASTERPIECE - The new thriller by JOHN JOYCE A nuclear weapon has been planted somewhere in the Louvre Museum in Paris and the detonator is ticking . . . THE RANSOM: $100 billion in aid for the suffering millions in Africa. THE RESPONSE: While Paris is evacuated, crack police officer Gabrielle Arnault, terrorist turned academic Damien Flynn and veteran art thief Jean-Jacques Sabuat - the only man to ever crack the Louvre's computerized security system - take to the sewers to defuse the bomb and save the world's ultimate . . . . MASTERPIECE THE RESULT: A roller coaster ride into the worlds of nuclear smuggling, stolen art and global politics stretching from Brussels to Barcelona and from Dublin to the Caspian Sea. From the award winning author of FIRE & ICE