02982cam a2200505 i 4500 770136070 TxAuBib 20230422120000.0 220629s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062834850 hardcover $29.99 0062834851 hardcover $29.99 (OCoLC)1280105224 TxAuBib rda Silva, Daniel, 1960-, author. Portrait of an unknown woman. Book 22 / / Daniel Silva. Unknown woman. First edition. New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. 431 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Gabriel Allon Includes bibliographical references. Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, bidding farewell to the demons of his tragic, violent past. But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it--and uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art world--Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest art forger the world has ever known. 20230422. Allon, Gabriel (Fictitious character) Fiction. Intelligence officers Fiction. Terrorism Prevention Fiction. Art thefts Fiction. Art restorers Fiction. Art dealers England London Fiction. Art Forgeries Fiction. Art forgers Fiction. Impersonation Fiction. Venice (Italy) Fiction. Spy fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Suspense fiction. Gabriel Allon. JARLL