Retrato de una desconocida

After cutting his ties with the Israeli intelligence services, legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon quietly settles in Venice, the only place where he has known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, runs the Tiepolo Restoration Company and their two young children attend a neighborhood elementary school. Gabriel, meanwhile, spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, shedding the demons of his tragic and violent past.But when Julian Isherwood, the eccentric London art dealer, asks him to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a century-old painting, Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an anonymous woman attributed to Anton van Dyck, is almost certainly a forgery made with devilish skill. In order to find the mysterious figure who painted the painting - and expose a multimillion-dollar fraud at the top of the art world - Gabriel devises one of the most complex plans of his career. If he wants to succeed, he must become the mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest forger of paintings in history.Elegant, sophisticated and brilliant in its plot, Daniel Silva's new novel is a fascinating journey through the dark side of the art world. From its elegant opening to the shocking twists of its climax, Portrait of a Stranger is one of the best heist stories ever written. And further proof that, within the genre of international intrigue and suspense, Daniel Silva has no equal.