false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171261341m/93795.jpg 93795 19 <I>The English Assassin</I> brings back Gabriel Allon, the appealingly melancholy art restorer with a double life as an Israeli secret agent, first introduced in 2000's <I>The Kill Artist</I>. Gabriel is sent to Zurich under a pseudonym to restore a Raphael belonging to a prominent Swiss banker and art collector, Augustus Rolfe, but upon arriving he finds Rolfe lying in a pool of blood. When Gabriel tries to leave Zurich, the Swiss police capture him immediately--and moreover, they know his real identity. He's released through some diplomatic string-pulling, but he soon discovers that Rolfe had requested a meeting with Israeli intelligence, for reasons unknown, just before his death. Rolfe's daughter, Anna, is a world-class violinist attempting to rebuild her career after an accident that nearly destroyed one of her hands. But her physical scars are nothing compared to those on her psyche, left by her mother's suicide when Anna was a teenager. Temperamental and mistrustful, she nevertheless believes Gabriel's story, and reveals that Rolfe owned a secret collection of priceless French Impressionist paintings, apparently stolen by his murderers. As Gabriel begins to put together the pieces of the puzzle, he faces two adversaries: a powerful group of men who would do anything to bury the past forever, and a hired killer who's planning a spectacular murder. Like <I>The Kill Artist</I>, <I>The English Assassin</I> balances fascinating characters, authentic-sounding historical detail, and plenty of glamorous international intrigue on the edge of a knife-keen plot. <I>--Barrie Trinkle</I> 1001813 2002 The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2) total:1094|5:287|4:521|3:255|2:28|1:3| 1094 4343 1361 91 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 14:18:14 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 14:19:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sun Mar 08 09:19:56 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 09:21:09 -0700 2009
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Narrator: Campbell Scott
Publisher: Random House Audio, 2002
Length: 4 hours and 56 min. (abridged)

Publisher's Summary
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