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An Inside Job

Gabriel Allon #25

$2.99

Price checked Oct 28. Prices change often, so confirm on Amazon before you buy.

A body in the Venetian lagoon leads a spy-turned-art-restorer to a stolen Leonardo, Vatican money and the very rich people who think they own everything.

Our take

A stolen Leonardo, a body in the lagoon, Venice

Gabriel Allon, the art restorer who used to run a spy service, finds a dead woman in the Venetian lagoon and ends up chasing a lost Leonardo that vanished from a Vatican storeroom. Readers love the art-world texture here: forgery, pentimenti, auction-house money and Vatican finances, all moving from Venice to the Riviera to St. Peter's Square. It's a heist story more than an espionage one, and some longtime fans miss the geopolitics. We picked it for readers who want a polished, escapist caper with real expertise behind it, and at this price it's an easy way to see why Silva has 25 of these.

Who it's for: Readers who like art-heist capers and elegant European settings more than gunfights and geopolitics.

If you liked: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Iain Pears' Jonathan Argyll mysteries

Heads-up: Book 25, but the case is self-contained and there's a cast list up front; the big returning cast means more if you start with The Kill Artist.

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