Gabriel Allon is in Umbria, when news reaches him that a Russian defector who saved his life has vanished without trace. British Intelligence assume he was a double agent, but Allon knows better, and soon finds himself in a deadly duel of wits with a murderous Russian arms dealer. '...it grips its reader by the throat like a rampant rottweiler and never, ever lets go' }Daily Mail Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Umbria, when shocking news arrives from London. A Russian defector who saved his life has vanished without a trace. British Intelligence suspect he was a double agent, but Allon knows better.