Israeli art restorer and occasional secret agent Gabriel Allon has a problem. A prominent Swiss banker has called him to Switzerland to restore his Raphael. The problem is that Allon finds the banker dead in front of his Raphael, and he's the prime suspect. After some diplomatic intervention, Allon is freed. However, the banker's daughter, wracked by guilt, tells him that her father's cache of French Impressionist paintings, acquired under dubious circumstances during the Second World War, has been stolen by the murderers. Once Allon knows about the banker's wartime misdeeds, he attracts the attention of a secret Swiss organization dedicated to suppressing knowledge of all such crimes, and he is pursued by a shadowy killer known only as "the Englishman."
The excellent John Lee performs this international thriller with the cool aplomb we would expect from the bankers, spies, diplomats, and assassins who populate it. Art theft from Jewish citizens during the Hitler years and the premise that Hitler could not have financed his war without the help of Swiss bankers provide Daniel Silva with the perfect background for a story of accusations, suppositions, intrigue, betrayal, and murder. Sometime Israeli special agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon is hired to restore a Raphael. He finds his employer, a Swiss banker, murdered. Silva's plot and John Lee's performance take us into places we've wondered about but have never seen, and to places we never even dreamed existed. It's a world in which paranoia is what keeps people alive. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
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