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An Inside Job
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Background
Content Warning: This section of the guide features discussions of graphic violence, war, child death, and mental illness.
Series Context: The Gabriel Allon Series
An Inside Job is the 25th thriller in the Gabriel Allon series. Although Gabriel is presented throughout the series as a middle-aged man who has retired from his former life in covert ops, his complete history is told in flashbacks as characters in various novels reconnect him to events from his past. Going back to the very beginning of his personal biography, Gabriel started out in life as a promising art student who was tagged by the head of Israeli intelligence to serve his country. His new boss wanted to use him to avenge the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches by a Palestinian organization. Gabriel soon finds himself playing the role of master spy and assassin operating under the identity of an art restorer.
In his early years with Israeli intelligence, Gabriel’s missions revolve around Israel’s history, the rise of Zionism, and the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. His knowledge of art involves him in cases related to the Holocaust, Nazi wartime looting of valuable artworks, and the complicity of the Vatican in allowing these crimes to be perpetrated.
The first novel in the series, The Kill Artist, was published in 2000, and the author intended it to be a standalone novel.
