Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva is the 22nd book in the Gabriel Allon series, where the retired Israeli spy is investigating an art forgery ring

Billy Boyle finds himself answering a personal request from his old friend Sergeant Jackson who is now part of the all-African American 617th Tank Destroyers

I found the plot to be a bit too convenient, information happens to fall into Sam’s lap just at the right time, I did enjoy the Russian/British interaction

The detail Nesbø brings to his characters & to Oslo is riveting and compelling. Nesbø takes the reader into nooks of the city where tourists rarely venture

The mystery is the way the investigation unfolds, layer by layer while the reader is privy to how the murder was done is a unique way to tell a story

The characters from the first book are being assembled, in Algeria, getting ready for Allied forces to take over, hoping the French won’t put up a fight

Operation Jupiter was a fake plan during World war Ii to draw Nazi forces away from the fronts. A former Boston cop, Boyle plays a fish-out-of-water in England

The third book of the series if finely crafted much like the first, interlacing between the good and the bad, the intelligence agencies, the police and media.

This is a fun book; the book can be ridiculous at times and riveting at others. Salander, who was somewhat believable in the first novel is taken to extremes