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Mercenary Book Description This was my first mistake. Being a forger means taking everything from others and giving nothing of yourself. The story begins like a detective story: Gaspard Winckler, a master of fake paintings, is in a studio on the outskirts of Paris. He has the blood of his financier Anatole Madera on his hands. The reason for the murder is Antonello da Messina's painting, The Mercenary Soldier, dated 1475, which gives its name to the book. While making a fake of this painting, Gaspard Winckler displayed a mastery that surpassed the original in the Louvre. So why did Winckler choose this profession, and what did he notice about the mastery he brought to this portrait? Why did he see killing Madera as an act of independence? Mercenary Soldier was Georges Pere's first book, which he completed in 1960. This book, which remained in a drawer for years after being rejected by publishers, was discovered among Perecin's papers thirty years after his death. Mercenary Soldier is the author's first and last novel, as befits Perecin's playful pen. Even though it is connected by hundreds of threads to the universe Perecin created, it is unlike anything else he has written. David Bellos (From the Promotional Bulletin)