Determined to sever his ties with the Office‚ Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife‚ Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled past: the endearingly eccentric art dealer Julian Isherwood. As usual‚ Isherwood has a problem only Gabriel can solve. An art restorer has been brutally murdered‚ and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously stolen.