Book description
Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns
in a spellbinding novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author
Europe is exploding. And one man must find out why.
For Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara, it was supposed to be the start
of a romantic weekend in London. But nothing is ever that simple when
you're an off-duty spy and assassin.
Bombings in Paris and Copenhagen have put him on edge and when Gabriel
notices a man exhibiting several traits common to suicide bombers, he
follows him into the Covent Garden throng. He's determined to prevent
the carnage he fears is about to take place, but before Gabriel can draw
his sidearm, he is knocked to the pavement by two plain-clothes police officers.
A moment later he looks up to find a scene from his nightmares.
From the streets of New York and London,
to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert,
Gabriel Allon is in a race to the death against a calculating
mass-murderer that he dare not lose… 'Allon is the 21st century Bond -
elegantly paced, subtle and well-informed. If you haven't read Silva
before, try Portrait of a Spy - and then go back and read the series.'
Daily Mail
'Sexily brooding Allon… must be the most famous superspy not played by
Daniel Craig' Daily Telegraph
'In true Bauer fashion, shoot-outs, kidnappings and international terror
plots follow Gabriel Allon wherever he goes' USA Today
'Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of the
plot' People Daniel Silva is the #1 New York Times bestselling author
of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The
Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna,
Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The
Defector, and The Rembrandt Affair. He is married to NBC News Today
correspondent Jamie Gangel and they have two children. In 2009 Silva was
appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. He
lives in Washington, D. C.
