The Art Procurer follows the parallel lives of an SS colonel, Rainer Zeitz, whose assignment is to confiscate art from occupied countries and that of an American art professor, Martin Wynerson, whose assignment will be to recover such art post-war. The wartime life of each is complicated by a strong-willed, loving female relative. In Zeitz's case his sly, manipulative cousin, Anna; for Wynerson it is his younger sister, Madeleine. Adding to the mix, Wynerson takes his absent boss's wife for a mistress. Zeitz's and Wynerson's lives intersect at last in post-war Munich and the fate of several European masterpieces hang in the balance.