A most elaborate deception

Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled in Venice. But when eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a  deadly game of cat and mouse. 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.

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