Daniel Silva · 2022 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2022 novel. Retired from the spy trade and turned art dealer, Gabriel Allon takes on a quieter hunt: a brilliant forger flooding the market with fakes so good they fool the greatest experts. From Venice to Paris to London, Allon and a cast of rogues lay an elaborate trap for the man behind the deception - a caper through the glamorous and treacherous world of high art.

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   Venice

   Living quietly in Venice as a private art restorer, Gabriel Allon is drawn by his old friend Julian Isherwood into a mystery: a string of Old Master paintings, sold for fortunes, that may all be the work of a single gifted forger.

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   Paris

   The hunt for the forger and his accomplices leads Allon to Paris and the shadowy back rooms of the art trade, where he assembles a team of thieves and dealers to bait a trap for the man behind the fakes.

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   London

   In the auction houses and galleries of London, Allon springs his elaborate con, turning the forger's own brilliance against him in a duel of nerve and deception at the glittering heart of the art world.