Do all the art works referred to in The Black Sun really exist?
Most of the works that feature in The Black Sun were stolen by the Nazis or the Soviet army in the Second World War. This includes Tarquin and Lucretia by Rubens, Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael, Flowers in an Earthenware Jug by van Gogh and Priam’s Gold, the treasure recovered by the German archeologist Schliemann from the ruins of Troy. Click here to find out more about the works of art that feature in The Black Sun.