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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
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"On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society's annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon--a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the...
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Shoot-outs, kidnappings, and international terror plots follow Gabriel Allon.
When a bomb explodes aboard the yacht of an iconic member of the British royal family, Gabriel Allon is soon on the tail of Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. But why would Quinn kill a member of the royal family and draw unwanted attention to himself? Allon seeks the aid of Christopher Keller, a British...
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After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces. But early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter's Basilica by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to His Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies broken beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome....
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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A sometime Israeli spy by trade and an art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker -- only to find himself standing in his client's blood and framed for the murder. Without warning, Allon is drawn into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a bloody trail of killings -- some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had put aside...
12) El atraco
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El legendario espia y restaurador de arte Gabriel Allon se encuentra en Venecia reparando un retablo de Veronese cuando recibe un llamado urgente de la policia italiana. Julian Isherwood, el excentrico comerciante de arte de Londres, se ha topado con una escalofriante escena de asesinato en el Lago Como, y ha sido detenido como sospechoso. Para salvar a su amigo, Gabriel debe localizar a los verdaderos asesinos y realizar una simple tarea: encontrar...
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Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...
14) The messenger
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Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and spy, faces the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer. These photographs lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever. Will Allon, who's still recovering from his last grueling showdown, find strength to halt this terrorist plot?
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2013.
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English
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The wayward son of Israeli intelligence, Gabriel Allon is plunged into a high stakes game of murder, espionage, and corruption after a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, which threatens to destroy a prime minister's career.
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Once a key operative in secret Israeli-intelligence missions, Gabriel Allon is on the run from his past assuming a quiet life as a meticulous restorer of priceless works of art. But now he is being called back into the game. The agent with whom he is teamed hides behind her own beautiful mask as a French fashion model. Their target, a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot named Tariq who played a dark part in Gabriel's...
17) Pug Hill
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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"For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, unconditional friendship, happiness, and freedom all qualities currently in short supply in her own life. She's also short on time and apartment space, and for those reasons she doesn't have a pug of her own. But she does have Pub Hill in Central Park, where pugs (and their owners) from all over New York City convene."--Page 4 of cover.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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Sara Wolfe is about to fall backwards. The thick walls that separate the past from the present are crumbling, but she doesn't know it yet. She's just working at the museum, retouching yet another canvas, trying not to go out of her mind with boredom. Putting down her brush - just a short break, she thinks - she heads to the gallery to take another look at that new drawing, the one she can't stop thinking about, the one of the Hindu god Shiva, who...
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