Daniel Silva · 2010 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2010 novel. When an art restorer is murdered in Glastonbury and a lost Rembrandt stolen, Gabriel Allon takes up the hunt - and finds the painting's dark provenance runs from Nazi-looted collections in Amsterdam to a fugitive's trail in Buenos Aires, and finally to a villa on Lake Geneva, where a philanthropic Swiss billionaire hides a deadly secret.

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   Glastonbury

   In the ancient English town of Glastonbury, an art restorer is brutally murdered and the long-lost Rembrandt he was cleaning is stolen. Coaxed from his Cornwall retirement, Gabriel Allon agrees to find the painting and the killers.

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   Amsterdam

   The portrait's provenance leads to Amsterdam and a terrible wartime history - a Jewish family destroyed in the Holocaust, and the looted masterpiece that passed through the hands of collaborators and thieves.

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   Buenos Aires

   The trail of the painting and its blood-soaked secret runs across the ocean to Buenos Aires, along the old escape routes of fugitives who fled Europe with fortunes built on murder and stolen art.

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   Lake Geneva

   At last it leads to a villa on the placid shores of Lake Geneva and the Swiss billionaire Martin Landesmann - a celebrated philanthropist secretly selling the components of nuclear terror to Iran.