Life, like art, rarely goes according to plan. No one knows that better than master art restorer and international assassin Gabriel Allon. A study in chiaroscuro, Gabriel is intimately familiar with the desire to create—and destroy. A reclusive man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, he is also an angel of vengeance, solid and unyielding, who will go anywhere in the hunt for terrorists, criminals, and killers, and stop at nothing to see justice done.

Told in seductive prose and filled with the remarkable twists and turns fans have come to expect, Gabriel Allon’s newest adventure finds him in the United States at the center of fast-paced, swirling intrigue. In a time of political and economic volatility, deception is everywhere, identities are disguised, and Allon again must use his expertise to eliminate a dangerous threat that could push international tensions past the breaking point.

Over the course of a brilliant c