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The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon: a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions The Concert, Johannes Vermeer. It was one of the works of art stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner...

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Main Author: Silva, Daniel, 1960- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
Edition:First Harper Large print edition.
Series:Silva, Daniel, 1960- Gabriel Allon series ; 23.
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Summary:The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon: a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions The Concert, Johannes Vermeer. It was one of the works of art stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. The missing masterpiece is the linchpin of a conspiracy that could plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions-- unless Allon and an unlikely ally can carry out their own heist. - adapted from back cover
Item Description:Sequel to: Portrait of an unknown woman.
Physical Description:532 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9780062835178
0062835173
Author Notes:Daniel Silva was born in Michigan in 1960. While pursuing a master's degree in international relations, he received a temporary job with United Press International to help cover the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Soon after, he left his graduate program to work full-time for United Press International. He worked in San Francisco and Washington, D. C. and as a Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the Persian Gulf.

He was working at CNN when his first novel, The Unlikely Spy, was published. In 1997. He then left CNN to become a full-time author. His novels include The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Other Woman, and other titles in the Gabriel Allon series. He won the Barry Award for Best Thriller for The Messenger in 2006. In 2014 he made The New York Times Best Seller List with The Heist and The English Spy made the list in 2015. The Black Widow is his latest bestseller.

(Bowker Author Biography)