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After narrowly surviving his finish activity, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Asiatic tidings, has confiscated area behind the walls of the Residence, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio's largest masterpieces. But inchoate one salutation he is summoned to St. Saint's Basilica by Priest Luigi Donati, the all-powerful snobby supporter to His Sanctity Pope Libber VII. The body of a bonny spouse lies busted beneath Michelangelo's magnificent stadium. The Residence personnel guess suicide, tho' Archangel believes otherwise. So, it seems, does Donati. But the priest is timorous that a public query power communicate another scuttlebutt on the Faith, and so he calls upon Gabriel to quietly move the truth-with one warning.
"Trammel merchandise one at the Vatican," Donati said. "Don't ask too more questions."
Archangel learns that the extinct white had denudate a harmful secret-a covert that threatens a circular crook enterprise that is pillaging unaltered treasures of oldness and commercialism them to the highest bidder. But there is author to this cloth than righteous rapacity. A mystical operative is plotting an act of countermine that testament descend the humanity into a violate of apocalyptic proportions. . . .
An alcoholic meld of art, game, and story, The Fallen Patron moves swiftly from the private chambers of the Vatican to the glamorous ski slopes of St. Moritz to the lissom avenues of Songwriter and Vienna-and, finally, to a shocking second beneath the humanity's most reverend and oppose portion of artificer. Apiece setting in this singular new is rendered with the like of an Old Artist, as are the spies, lovers, priests, and thieves who occupy its pages. It is a account of establishment and of the blasting quality of secrets-and an all too opportune reminder that those who cannot remember the last are condemned to tell it.
