Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Name: Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Rating: 4.42 (36634 reviews)
Author: Daniel Silva

Gabriel Allon • Book 22

by Daniel Silva

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

4.42 ABR Score (36.6K ratings)

★ 4.23 Goodreads (33.6K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.1K)

10h 16m Released 2022 Thriller

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Twenty-two books in, Silva pulls Gabriel Allon into an art forgery conspiracy so layered that the spy plot almost feels secondary to the con.

Great if you want: art world intrigue wrapped inside a European spy thriller
Listening experience: measured, elegant pacing — more chess match than footrace
Narration: Ballerini has voiced every Allon book; this is his native register
Skip if: you need action-forward plotting rather than atmosphere and scheme

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About This Audiobook

Gabriel Allon, now director-general of Israeli intelligence, is approached by an old rival who claims to have uncovered a network of forged Old Masters flooding the art market. The investigation takes Allon back to his origins as a restorer and agent, moving through the rarefied world of international fine art and the intelligence operations that shadow it. Daniel Silva's twenty-second Gabriel Allon novel weaves art authentication, European intrigue, and the mechanics of high-stakes forgery into a thriller built on decades of accumulated character history.

Edoardo Ballerini has become the definitive voice of the Gabriel Allon series, his precise, internationally inflected narration perfectly suited to Silva's world of museums, galleries, and intelligence tradecraft. His command of the ensemble's varied nationalities gives Portrait of an Unknown Woman its cosmopolitan texture, and at just over ten hours the audiobook moves with the efficiency Silva's plotting demands.