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Loading... Der Engländer (original 2002; edition 2007)by Daniel Silva
Work InformationThe English Assassin by Daniel Silva (2002)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Yes, you really do have to read this series in order. Important foundational story in this one. ( ) Gabriel Allon is called to Zurich to evaluate and restore a Raphael, but when he arrives the owner is lying in a pool of blood. Gabriel is soon caught up in case involving a missing art collection, a Swiss banking cabal, and a temperamental violinist. I liked this second book in the Allon series much more than the first. The author seems to have moved past his adolescent fixation on women's bodies, and focuses instead on an interesting chapter in history: the Nazi theft of art and the role of Switzerland in aiding and abetting the Nazis by laundering artwork and preventing its reclamation by the rightful heirs. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon finds himself accused of murder in this New York Times bestseller from Daniel Silva. An Israeli spy by trade and art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to restore the work of an Old Master for a millionaire bankerā??and finds himself standing in blood and framed for the manā??s murder. While trying to clear his name, Allon is swept into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a dark and bloody trail of killingsā??some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had left behind has come back to haunt him. And he will have to fight for his lifeā??against an assassin he himself h No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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