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The English Assassin

Book Number 2 in the Gabriel Allon Series.

In Allon’s latest adventure, The English Assassin, he comes out of retirement once again and finds himself enmeshed in a murder investigation whose roots reach back to the cataclysmic policies of Nazi Germany. Allon’s involvement begins when he accepts a commission to restore a priceless Raphael original. He travels to Zurich, only to find that his client — wealthy Swiss banking magnate Augustus Rolfe — has been shot to death just hours before. On the heels of that discovery, Allon is arrested by the Swiss police and narrowly avoids prosecution. When Allon’s former mentor, legendary spymaster Ari Shamron, informs him that Rolfe had recently requested a meeting with the Israeli Secret Service, Allon launches an investigation of his own.

At the heart of the novel’s central mystery lies another mystery. According to the victim’s daughter, world-famous violinist Anna Rolfe, a valuable collection of Impressionist paintings disappeared from Rolfe’s house at the time of the murder. The paintings, as Allon discovers, may have been part of the vast collection looted by the Nazis before and during World War II. As Allon pursues the missing paintings, he begins to understand the close — in fact, collaborative — relationship that once existed between the Nazi hierarchy and the wealthy banking community of neutral Switzerland.

First Published: 2002

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