A cunning game of deceit leads to a final art forgery, the theft of prized artworks from a Copenhagen collector, an assassination in the Basilica of Santa Croce and a young woman's refusal to live her life in fear."Chameleon continues the scandalous tale of art and deception...a fast-paced thriller that gives the reader a first class seat from which to view the author's well drawn characters...Attention to detail brings to life the people, cities and landscapes ... a masterful mystery that uncovers the ends to which individuals will go to own beauty." - Peter Petschauer, author of In the Face of Evil: The Sustenance of Tradition"Capehart has given us another compelling story with elements of art, art history and, of course, the evil activities of the 'Chameleon'. A good read, certain to engage and satisfy...you will love the ending." -Bob Bondi, author of The Yellow Box"Chameleon is an automatic page turner. with plots and subplots, and something new around every corner. Capehart's artistic use of the language and his understanding of what makes a story flow are crowd pleasers. Be sure not to miss this new novel." -Nina Jo Moore, Professor of Communication, Appalachian State University
About the Author: Noyes Capehart was born and raised near Nashville, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South (Sewanee) before transferring to Auburn University where he received a BA degree in art in 1958. From 1958 through 1960, he worked as a guard and night watchman at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was called in late 1960 to return to Auburn and fill in for an ailing faculty member. Realizing a love for teaching, he went to the University of Missouri in 1963 for his master's degree in printmaking. He taught at the University of Missouri, the University of Mississippi and at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina until his retirement in 1997; a combined teaching career of nearly thirty-five years. Noyes Capehart has been exhibiting professionally in adjudicated exhibitions and regional and national levels since 1958, including exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The North Carolina Museum of Art and The Mint Museum of Art. His artwork has appeared in the North Carolina Literary Review and in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. In 2006, Dancingfish Press published The Private Diary of Noyes Capehart, a fifty-year overview of the artist's visual career. That same year, North Carolina's Our State magazine did a feature article on Noyes' Private Diary pictures and UNC-TV followed with an Emmy-award winning program on his uniquely visual and literary approach to picture making. Noyes Capehart has been writing since the late 1960's. In addition to Devil's Mark, Noyes has written three other novels and numerous short stories. Noyes Capehart is married to Suzie Connor and between them they have six children and eleven grand-children. Noyes and Suzie reside in Boone, North Carolina. Persons interested in the art and writing of Noyes are invited to visit his website: www.capehart.org.