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The Collector
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society’s annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon—a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions of the world’s most valuable missing painting. General Ferrari asks Gabriel to quietly track down the artwork before the trail goes cold.
“Isn’t that your job?”
“Finding stolen paintings? Technically speaking, yes. But you’re much better at it than we are.”
The painting in question is The Concert by Johannes Vermeer, one of thirteen works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. With the help of a most unlikely ally, a beautiful Danish computer hacker and professional thief, Gabriel soon discovers that the painting has changed hands as part of an illicit billion-dollar business deal involving a man code-named the Collector, an energy executive with close ties to the highest levels of Russian power.
The missing masterpiece is the lynchpin of a conspiracy that if successful, could plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. To foil the plot, Gabriel must carry out a daring heist of his own, with millions of lives hanging in the balance.
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- R T L
- 22-07-23
Reflects our current world situation
Enjoyed it more than the penultimate art forgery story, but a little predictable story, less twists and turns c/w early books
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- Martin M
- 19-08-23
Loved it
I enjoyed this program …
Quite plausible story even though it is fictional it is spot on when it comes to how an attacker and invaders rational/lies
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- SMF
- 25-07-23
Another great book
I have been invested in the Gabriel Allon books for over a decade and have read the entire series theee or four times. I especially love how all the characters are evolving and Mr Silva weaving current events into the plot.
I also like the narrator, but miss George Guidall, who, in my opinion is the Rock Star of narrators.
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- Aedamair
- 06-08-23
Silva does it again
Yet again Daniel Silva has produced an excellent and suspenseful thriller. In his book he is absolutely bang upidate... and his story in very though provoking as a result.... So even more of a good listen that any of his previous book. I can't wait for his next book
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- brian r
- 23-07-23
Not the tops
I have read all of his books and this was the least credible of them all. He seems to be running out of steam to me.
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- christine
- 19-08-23
Going slowly down hill with every book
I have all Gabriel Allon audio books and they have become more dreary and plotless with each one, especially since George Guidall stopped reading the books.
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