After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return.

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...

TV producer Mica Segal accompanies her grandmother, Regina, on the old lady's first return to Warsaw since she fled, pregnant by a gentile with Mica's late father, to Palestine in 1939. On the plane, the son of a friend of Regina's ebulliently accosts the women and thereafter seems to show up wherever they go, even separately. Mica shakes him by dodging into a café, where she meets a charming Pole who leads Jewish history tours. Not by chance, Regina...

Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.

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?

On September 5, 1972, terror took over the Olympic games when Arab terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine more hostage. Those who reported it to the world, including Peter Jennings and Jim McKay, recall the events of that day.