Degas’ Dust: Joburg maverick’s quest to regain Nazi war booty

Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in post-war Johannesburg, Carnie Matisonn learns of a great-uncle in occupied Norway murdered by Nazi soldiers as they looted his prized art collection. He starts a life-long quest to retrieve the art that takes him into the murky waters of apartheid sanctions-busting, Mossad agents, international art dealers and Nazi hunters. Matisonn's enthralling story - told here with journalist Charles Cilliers - embraces courage, wit and wisdom as he shows one man can achieve the impossible.