El golpe

Synopsis of El golpe

The legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Venice working on the restoration of an altarpiece when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. Art dealer Julian Isherwood has been involved in a crime scene on Lake Como and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must find the most famous missing painting in the world. The dead man is a disgraced spy who had been trafficking in stolen art and selling it to a mysterious collector. Among those paintings is the iconic lost masterpiece par excellence: Caravaggio's Nativity. Gabriel embarks on a daring strategy to recover the Caravaggio that will lead him on an exhilarating hunt from Marseille to Corsica, passing through London or Paris, to end up in a small private bank in Austria, where a very dangerous man stands guard to protect the illicit wealth amassed by one of the world's most brutal dictators.