The Rembrandt Affair

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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. ** From Publishers Weekly Silva's spy, assassin, and art-restoring protagonist, Gabriel Allon, returns in a fresh--and thrilling--international adventure. When an art restorer friend is killed and the Rembrandt painting he was working on stolen, Allon is lured out of a self-imposed retirement to investigate the crime. As the complex plot flips and twists from one country to the next, Phil Gigante keeps the plot moving forward with a calm, thoughtful reading that coils around the reader. His characters are perfectly drawn; the suspense, taut; and each individual is rendered distinctly: his reading of a Holocaust survivor's remembrance of being a little girl hiding from the Nazis is particularly effective and moving. A Putnam hardcover. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Review "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