V sleepy francúzskej dediny, body muža zastrelil cez hlavu je rozložená po korene fallen stromu. A week later a famous art critic s viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague na inšpekciu stránky formulára, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself zhromaždené v investícii z minulého roka. Dve extraordinárne narratives sú vo vlaku - jeden historický, unfolding v treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; ďalšia súčasnosť, set in the autumn of 2020 as Francúzsko re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo 's investíciami urobila unexpected link medzi murders - the Mona Lisa. Povedal sa exiled General Charles de Gaulle na stiahnutie svetového mosta famous painting z Nazi ruky po páde Francúzska v roku 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal pokračuje herself swept poblíž tide historie. Zameriavajúc sa na prehliadku Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it je moved z chateau do Louvre, she finds herself len jeden krok nad dvoma germánskymi odborníkmi umenia to steal it pre rival patrónov - Hitler and Goering. What none of the know is that the Louvre itself has exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train and fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings. The Night Gate spans tri generácie, tak aby sme z war-torn London, Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Berlín a Vichy Francúzsko, to deadly enemy priblížiť svet v roku 2020. V jeho najnovšie novely, Peter May shows why he is one of the great contemporary writers of crime fiction.