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"The Fallen Angel" is a 2012 political thriller by Daniel Silva and the twelfth installment in his Gabriel Allon series. The narrative follows Allon, an Israeli intelligence operative and master art restorer, as he works undercover at the Vatican. While cleaning a Caravaggio painting, he becomes entangled in an investigation following the suspicious death of a museum curator, which eventually exposes a lucrative and dangerous illicit antiquities trade. The novel is intended for readers of espionage fiction and international thrillers.
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Which Caravaggio is Gabriel Allon restoring in The Fallen Angel?
Gabriel is working inside the Vatican on Caravaggio's The Deposition of Christ when the investigation begins. The assignment places his art-restoration expertise directly inside the novel's espionage plot.
What death starts the mystery in The Fallen Angel?
A young Vatican antiquities curator is found dead after an apparent fall from St Peter's Basilica. Monsignor Luigi Donati suspects that the death was not a simple suicide and quietly brings Gabriel into the case.
Is The Fallen Angel mainly a Vatican conspiracy novel?
The Vatican investigation is its starting point, but the story expands into stolen antiquities, terrorism, and threats connected to Jerusalem. Its locations range from Rome to Switzerland and the Middle East.
What should I read before The Fallen Angel?
It is the twelfth Gabriel Allon novel and follows Portrait of a Spy, whose operation leaves Gabriel recovering from a dangerous mission. The English Girl comes next, but The Fallen Angel still contains enough context to follow its central case independently.
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