Daniel Silva · 2005 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2005 novel. A bomb rips apart the Israeli embassy in Rome, and in the rubble is a dossier exposing Gabriel Allon's every secret. Recalled from his art restoration in Venice, Allon returns to Israel and takes up the hunt for the mastermind - Khaled, heir to a dynasty of terror - a chase that leads across Europe to a reckoning in the sun-baked hills of southern France.

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   Rome

   A massive bomb destroys the Israeli embassy in Rome, and among the ruins investigators find a dossier that lays bare the secret history and true identity of the art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon.

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   Venice

   Pulled from the Bellini altarpiece he is restoring in Venice and from his life with Chiara, Allon learns that Palestinian terrorists have exposed him and mean to kill him, and reluctantly returns to the service he had left.

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   Jerusalem

   Back in Israel, Allon takes up the hunt for Khaled - son and grandson of terror, adopted heir to Arafat's vengeance - piecing together a blood feud that reaches back to the villages lost in 1948.

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   Provence

   The trail runs west across Europe to the south of France, where at a lonely archaeological dig in the hills of Provence the long duel between Allon and the Prince of Fire comes to its violent end.