Espionage

All’indomani del gala annuale della Venice Preservation Society, il restauratore e leggendaria spia Gabriel Allon entra nel suo caffè preferito sull’isola di Murano e trova ad attenderlo il generale Cesare Ferrari, a capo del Comando per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale. Ad Amalfi, nella villa di un magnate sudafricano recentemente assassinato, è stato scoperto un caveau segreto contenente una cornice e un telaio vuoti che corrispondono alle dimensioni del Concerto a tre di Johannes Vermeer, una delle tredici opere d’arte rubate nel 1990 all’Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum di Boston.

This collection includes the first three books of the Matt Helm Series: Death of a Citizen, The Wrecking Crew, and The Removers.

Ten years in the British SAS have turned Lacklan Walker into a supreme killing machine. That, and his twisted, dysfunctional family. His father, a Boston Brahmin Billionaire, taught him how to hate. His English Aristocrat mother taught him he didn’t belong. And when his only friend and childhood sweetheart, Marni, wanted to teach him how to love, he walked away from her, knowing all he would ever be good at was killing, and war.

At seventeen, Alice Marble has no formal tennis skills and no coach. What she does have is an ability to hit the ball as hard as she can and a strong desire to prove herself. With steadfast determination and one sacrifice after another, Alice plays her heart out on the courts of the rich and famous, at national tournaments, and—the greatest of them all—at Wimbledon, rising to be one of the top-ranked players in the world.

Brin continues to fight a silent war flooded with conspiracies and intrigue. As political tensions in Britain rise, he witnesses the fascists’ plans to conduct a violent coup. If successful, they would bring down the government and replace King George VI with the Duke of Windsor. Yet even with this imminent threat, the new home secretary refuses to intern the British plotters hiding amongst the aristocracy and Parliament benches.