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Book Review of The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, Bk 2)

The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, Bk 2)
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An Israeli spy by trade and art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to restore the work of an Old Master for a millionaire bankerâand finds himself standing in blood and framed for the man's murder.

While trying to clear his name, Allon is swept into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a dark and bloody trail of killingsâsome of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had left behind has come back to haunt him. And he will have to fight for his lifeâagainst an assassin he himself helped train.