American thriller writer takes on the theft of the Righteous Judges | VRT NWS: news

Bestselling author Steve Berry has been inspired by the theft of a panel from the Ghent Altarpiece to write his latest thriller ‘The Omega Factor’ now translated in Dutch as “Het geheim van Gent” (The Secret of Ghent) published by De Fontein. The tome is set in Ghent where the panel “The Righteous Judges”, part of the Ghent Altarpiece, was famously stolen from and is still to be recovered.