Portrait of an Unknown Woman
English
By (author): Akira Toriyama Alan Gibbons Alannah Moore Alexa Tewkesbury Amanda Lynn Aisling Andrea K Grove Ann Cleeves Asato Asato Belinda Bauer Bernie Lierow Brienna Rossiter Britannica Group Caryl Churchill Cassandra Clare Ching-He Huang Christopher Nolan Daniel Silva Dave Canterbury David Almond Diane Lierow Dodie Kazanjian Dr. Seuss Emily Snape Evan Stanley Frank Erwich Georges T. Nehmetallah Hajime Isayama Holly Tucker Ian Flynn Jeanne Willis Jennie Allen John Donne John O'Keeffe Joshua Lewis Julie May Kalman Weiser Kate Morris Katsura Hoshino Kes Gray L. M. Montgomery Lea Wait Logan Williams Mary Marylin Ross Maurice Druon Megan Fox Michael Greger Mike Payne Mike Rohde Naoki Urasawa Oscar Wilde Paige Towler Patricia Highsmith Ph.D. Jason A. Hunt R. J. Prescott Rob Pepper Rola Aylo Ross Carroll Simone St. James Susan Falls Takashi Nagasaki W. N. P. Barbellion Will Gompertz Yoshi Yoshitani Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Illustrated by: Andy Smith, Briony May Smith, Dani Padron, Dylan Gibson, Jim Field, Toyotarou
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Timesbestselling 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 he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are clandestinely enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, parting company with 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 itand uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art worldGabriel 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.
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