The Rembrandt Affair

The Rembrandt Affair
Daniel Silva
Putnam's, 2010. 484 pgs. Fiction

In Silva's latest Gabriel Allon thriller, the art restorer/spy has retreated with his wife to Cornwall, hoping to leave the Israeli intelligence service for keeps. But he is soon back in action when a friend and gallery owner asks him to locate a stolen Rembrandt--taken at the cost of a fellow restorer's life. Allon soon finds it necessary to call in his friends from MI5, the CIA, and from King Saul Boulevard when this "simple" case of murder and theft reawakens the horrors of the Holocaust and foreshadows the future for Israel--and the world--if or when Iran becomes nuclear weapons capable. Silva's own formula works well here, of innocence threatened and redeemed by agents of light who must live in the dark.

LW