The Collector, DaSilva - B

                      Gabriel has been happily retired for six months, and living in Venice, where he works as a fine art restorer. He is approached by the Carabinieri and asked to help find a stolen Vermeer. As he lives in Italy at the government's sufferance, he obliges. He traces the painting and the theft to a woman in Denmark, Ingrid Johansen. However, as he is talking to her, a Moscow-based hitman makes an attempt on her life, and Gabriel realizes that there is more here than simple theft. He returns to King Saul Boulevard, ascertains that there is a tie in to South Africa's old nuclear program and a wealthy Dane with connections to Moscow. He puts his old team back together and heads back to Copenhagen. They confront the Dane, Magnus Larsen, who acknowledges that he is completely beholden to the Russians, who caught him in a honey trap 20 years ago. After consulting with Langley, Gabriel decides to use Larsen and Johansen to grab a piece of critical intelligence on Russia's plans to use a false flag operation in Ukraine to justify the use of tactical nukes. They pull it off, but wind up in a shoot out at the Finnish border. Another Allon masterpiece.