Gabriel Allon
Harper
July 2022
On Sale: July 19, 2022
Featuring: Gabriel Allon
496 pages ISBN: 0062834851 EAN: 9780062834850 Kindle: B09JPBWVMF Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook Add to Wish List
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New
York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel
Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art
forger who ever lived
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long
last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled
quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly
known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the
day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company,
and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a
neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends
his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery
city, bidding farewell to the demons of his tragic, violent
past.
But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood
asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding
the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old
painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse
where nothing is as it seems.
Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a
portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony
van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To
find the mysterious figure who painted it—and uncover
a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art
world—Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate
deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must
become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the
greatest art forger the world has ever known.
Stylish, sophisticated, and ingeniously plotted, Portrait
of an Unknown Woman is a wildly entertaining journey through
the dark side of the art world—a place where
unscrupulous dealers routinely deceive their customers and
deep-pocketed investors treat great paintings as though they
were just another asset class to be bought and sold at a
profit. From its elegant opening to the shocking twists of
its climax, the novel is a tour de force of storytelling and
one of the finest pieces of heist fiction ever written. And
it is still more proof that, when it comes to international
intrigue and suspense, Daniel Silva has no equal.
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