Portrait of an Unknown Woman is an espionage and art-world thriller in Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series, following the former Israeli intelligence officer and art restorer after he has stepped away from active service and settled in Venice. When London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks him to examine the suspicious rediscovery and sale of an old portrait attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, Gabriel is drawn into a deception that reaches from private galleries to the highest levels of the international art market. The novel combines spy fiction, crime investigation and questions of authenticity, greed and identity, as Gabriel must enter the mind of a master forger in order to expose a hidden network of fraud. It speaks to readers interested in intelligent thrillers, art crime, European settings and stories where the difference between an original and a fake becomes increasingly difficult to see.
Author: Daniel Silva
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication year: 2023
Number of pages: 448
Original language: English