Talks & Entertainment

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Daniel Silva, the prolific #1 New York Times bestselling spy novelist, continues his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon with Portrait of an Unknown Woman, a spellbinding account of a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived.

At long last, Gabriel Allon has severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled into a quiet life in Venice, the only place he has ever truly known peace, where he is content wandering the streets of the city, bidding farewell to the demons of his past. But when an eccentric art dealer asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it, Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. Stylish, sophisticated, and ingeniously plotted, Portrait of an Unknown Woman is a wildly entertaining journey through the dark side of the art world.

Silva will be in conversation with Wolf Blitzer, the anchor of “The Situation Room” on CNN, where he has served as an award-winning journalist for over thirty years.