Weaving together history about what happened in Italy during WW2 with the Nazi\\\\\\\'s systematically gathering up the Jewish people living in Italy (and throught Europe) while the Pope looked the other way. Vatican intrigue, history lesson and a thriller of a book with hero Gabriel Allon, art restorer and Israeli assassin seeking to find the reason his friend was murdered (manuscript of a book about what really happened in WW2 and the complicity of the Pope/Vatican).