Giotto's HandBy: Iain Pears General Bottando of Romes Art Theft Squad believes that a lone criminal masterminddubbed Giottohas been stealing priceless Renaissance art for over thirty years. But his theoryprompted by a letter from an embittered, dying old womanis scorned by archrival Corrado Argan, a bureaucrat more interested in politics than policing. Bottandos right hand, the beautiful Flavia di Stefano, quickly locates a possible culpritbut hes in England.