few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that daniel silva has with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy gabriel allonnow allon is back in venice when a terrible explosion in rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation the existence of a dossier in the hands of terrorists that strips away his secrets lays bare his history hastily recalled home to israel drawn once more into the heart of a service he had once forsaken gabriel allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist across a landscape drenched in generations of blood along a trail that keeps turning in upon itself until finally he can no longer be certain who is stalking whom and when at last the inevitable showdown comes its not gabriel alone who is threatened with destructionfor it is not his history alone that has been laid barea knifeedged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling filled with exhilarating prose this is daniel silvas finest novel yet