Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

After narrowly surviving his last operation, Israeli intelligence officer Gabriel Allon has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, working on a Caravaggio in his other capacity as an art restorer, when he is summoned by the Pope's private secretary. The body of a beautiful woman lies broken beneath the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. Fearful of scandal, the Vatican asks Gabriel to quietly investigate. Gabriel learns that the dead woman had...

Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den--the States--to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...