Vnitřní záležitost – Silva Daniel (2026)

Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it again. Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon left his position as director-general of the Israeli secret services several years ago and settled quietly in Venice with his wife and children. His long-awaited peace is disrupted when he must solve an almost perfect crime involving murder, greed and corruption. Gabriel has been commissioned to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice and hopes that nothing will pull him away from his work this time. When he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian lagoon, however, he finds himself in a desperate race to locate a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young woman, has gathered dust for more than a century in a storeroom of the Vatican Museums, where no one knows what treasure lies hidden beneath a later, worthless overpainting by an unknown artist. Since nobody knows about the concealed masterpiece, nobody notices when it disappears one night under suspicious circumstances—nobody except the ruthless mafiosi and criminals behind the theft, and the mysterious woman Gabriel found in a watery grave in Venice. A woman without a name, a woman without a face. The Czech-language novel moves at dizzying speed from Venice to London galleries and auction houses, then to Rome and an enclave of unimaginable wealth on the French Riviera, building towards a shocking climax in St Peter’s Square, where the Pope’s life hangs in the balance.