He writes about:
-- His fellow dealers, among them, Julian Levy, and Leo Castelli.
-- His decision to walk away from contemporary art and sell the work of old masters.
-- The instincts -- the "eye" that recognizes a fine painting (how he spotted a masterpiece in a throw-away shop in the Cotswalds).
-- The conservators whose pathfinding techniques have revolutionized authentication.
-- The great art owning families.
-- The circuitous ways in which an art dealer can find a painting to sell.
-- The fight at the Albert Barnes's Foundation that resulted in resignations, front page news and the undoing of Barnes's vision for his beloved collection.
-- The great art boom of the eighties and its effects on the art world.
-- The commercialism plaguing American museums today.

Revelatory, endlessly fascinating, at times a Bond-like thriller, Feigen's book opens up a world of artists, of montebanks, of the oldest old money and the newest new to give us a portrait of the great art game as it has been played in the 20th century.