August 8, 1944, the war in Europe is bleeding to a close. The scion of a prominent New York family, US Army Lt. Col. Jacob "Jay" Rosenthal discovers six paintings, the works of great masters, in the bunker of a battle-battered mansion of a Nazi colonel in F?rth, Germany. Deftly, he smuggles two of them to a Swiss bank vault, the others to New York City as he's deployed home. Three generations of Rosenthals commit themselves to finding the rightful...