An Inside Job

Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century, misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown artist. Because no one knows that the Leonardo is there, no one notices when it disappears one night during a suspicious power outage. No one but the ruthless mobsters and moneymen behind the theft – and the mysterious woman whom Gabriel found in a watery grave in Venice. A woman without a name. A woman without a face.

'Allon is the 21st century Bond' – DAILY MAIL

'A world-class practitioner of spy fiction' – WASHINGTON POST

'Sexily brooding Allon… must be the most famous superspy not played by Daniel Craig' – DAILY TELEGRAPH

'[A] top-notch thriller by a writer with the inside track on spying' THE SUN

‘A tense, thrilling adventure’ HUFFINGTON POST