In a true light

"Peu de temps après sa sortie de prison où il est resté deux ans pour avoir imité quelques peintres, Sloane reçoit une lettre de Jane Graham, une ancienne maîtresse, sur le point de mourir. Elle lui apprend que de leur liaison est née une fille, Connie, et lui fait promettre de la retrouver pour lui dire qu'il est son père. Sloane s'exécute, mais Connie est sous l'emprise d'un homme violent..."
""Sloane at sixty is a talented if conventionally unsuccessful painter who has just finished serving two years in an English prison for art forgery. On his return to his studio in North London he discovers among the junk mail and trash a letter forwarded to him two months earlier from an old address."--Jacket."
"Sloane, an unsuccessful but talented artist, discovers that a long-ago love affair had resulted in a child, but when he searches for his daughter, he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a web of criminal violence, police investigations, dangerous alliances, and murder."@en