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Violence
Some
Moderate violence — intelligence operations; confrontations; the conspiracy's reach
Language
Some
Mild-to-moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Swiss banking — the wartime secrets that still pay dividends; who dies to protect the conspiracy; Gabriel's art restoration as cover
What this book is about
Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to restore a Rembrandt owned by a private banker — and finds the banker dead and a conspiracy connecting Swiss wartime banking to the present day. The English Assassin is the second Gabriel Allon novel — Silva's research into Swiss banking and Nazi gold gives the thriller its historical backbone.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Swiss banking and Nazi gold — historical thriller element
A conspiracy with WWII roots
Intelligence operations violence
Second in the Gabriel Allon series
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