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A Death in Cornwall is the 2024 title and 24th in the series from Daniel Silva wherein Gabriel Allon is searching for a stolen Picasso work. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list the week after its release.
Gabriel Allon is the main protagonist in Daniel Silva's thriller and espionage series that focuses on Israeli intelligence.The main characters refer to their employer as 'the Office', although it is not specified that it is Mossad (which is indeed known internally in the Israeli intelligence community as HaMisrad [עברית: המשרד], literally 'the Office').
In an elaborate plot to lure Gabriel Allon into a trap, an English royal princess is killed by a bomb. The princess's life story includes elements based on that of Princess Diana (who died in 1997), as Silva points out in his "Author's Note," but, as he also notes, the bombing of a royal personage on a boat is based on the 1979 death of Lord Mountbatten at the hands of the IRA. [3]
The story takes place against the background of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and also the rising concerns about climate change. Gabriel Allon has retired from Israeli intelligence, but he is asked by Italian authorities to look into the theft of a painting from a private collector.
A Death in Vienna Followed by: The Messenger Prince of Fire is a 2005 spy novel by Daniel Silva. [1] It spent four weeks as a New York Times Bestseller. [2] [3] Plot ...
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Keller is instructed to bomb Müller's art store. Gabriel, who is visiting the store flees moments before the bomb detonates. He suffers substantial damage to his hands but escapes the crime scene unnoticed. Müller's death confirms that the missing art collection is the key to understanding Rolfe's murder.
Unusually for the Allon series, this novel is a sequel to the previous one (Moscow Rules), with many of the same characters, in particular the antagonist, Ivan Kharkov.. The beginning finds Gabriel Allon and his new wife Chiara resuming the honeymoon in rural Umbria which was interrupted by the events of Moscow Rules; Gabriel is again restoring a painting for the Vatican, this time Guido Reni ...