The Daily Rate

A gripping Emmanuel Carrère-style literary thriller in which a genius painter named Alexei Volkov, hired on a lavish daily rate to copy stolen masterpieces, unearths a vast trans-European art forgery and money laundering conspiracy. When his legal battle for overtime pay reaches a fictional European Supreme Court, a crushing verdict pushes him toward an ultimate, silent act of protest—transforming his own death into an unignorable masterpiece.