"Hypnotic prose...nonstop action."--People****

"Silva has created a credible secret agent with skills that would make James Bond weep."--The Dallas Morning News

"Silva sweeps readers from locale to locale in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and the United States, with generous doses of well-done local color. And he offers fascinating details on the techniques and technology of intelligence operations."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A fresh--and thrilling--international adventure."--Publishers Weekly

Gabriel Allon must travel the world to track down a painting worth killing for in this #1 New York Times bestseller.

Having retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful wife, Gabriel Allon's seclusion is interrupted by an eccentric London art dealer with a problem. An art restorer has been brutally murdered and a portrait by Rembrandt stolen?and only Gabriel can find it. But as he pursues the masterpiece across the globe, Gabriel discovers there are deadly secrets connected to the painting?and even deadlier men who will do anything to keep them