description: Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during the Death March from Auschwitz. But is it really the same one? If so, who is he? How did he escape punishment? Where is he now?Fueled by an intensity he has not felt in years, Allon cautiously begins to investigate, but the more layers he strips away, the greater the evil that is revealed, a web stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives. Soon, the quest for one monster becomes the quest for many. And the monsters are stirring . . .Filled with sharply etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy, this is an uncommonly intelligent thriller by one of our very best writers.
language: English
title: A Death in Vienna
titlecomplete: A Death in Vienna
characters: Moshe Rivlin, Bruce Crawford, Luigi Donati, Max Klein, Konrad Becker, Adrian Carter, Manfred Kruz, Uzi Navot, Renate Hoffmann, Alfonso Ramirez, Tziona Levin, Ludwig Vogel, Ari Shamron, Eli Lavon, Reveka Gazit, Francesco Tiepolo, Chiara Zolli Allon, Sarah Greenberg, Gabriel Allon
genres: Fiction, Espionage, Crime, Thriller, Spy Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 27597
places: Vienna, Austria, Argentina, Rome, Venice
series: Gabriel Allon
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Thriller, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Gumshoe Award
category: Best Thriller
publisher: Random House Audio