An Inside Job: A Novel

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon must solve the perfect crime in the dazzling new tale of murder greed and corruption from #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Silva. Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it back . . . 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