Daniel Silva · 2002 · thriller
Daniel Silva's 2002 novel. Sent to Zurich to restore a painting for a reclusive banker, Gabriel Allon instead finds the man murdered and is framed for the killing. Freed by his old Israeli masters, he follows a trail of Nazi-looted art and old blood - to the violinist Anna Rolfe in Portugal, to Venice, and back into the Swiss mountains - hunted all the while by an assassin he once trained.
- 1Zurich
Arriving in Zurich to clean an Old Master for a wealthy banker, Gabriel Allon finds his client shot dead beneath the painting and a secret hoard of pictures gone - then is arrested for the killing before Israel wins his release.
- 2Portugal
The dead man's estranged daughter, the world-famous violinist Anna Rolfe, lives in seclusion on the coast of Portugal. Allon goes to her, and together they begin to pull at the threads of her father's buried wartime past.
- 3Venice
As Anna insists on giving a concert in Venice, a professional killer named Christopher Keller - once trained by Allon's own service - is hired to murder them both, and the hunt closes in among the canals.
- 4The Alps
The trail leads back into the Swiss mountains and the shameful secret of Nazi gold and stolen art, to a final reckoning that lays bare a nation's collaboration - and nearly costs Allon everything.