The Secret Servant
By (Author) Daniel Silva
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
25th June 2010
31st July 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
813.6
Paperback
464
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 28mm
317g
The brilliant new thriller from the US best-selling phenomenon In Amsterdam, an Israeli terrorist analyst is murdered. The police believe the killer is a deranged Muslim extremist, but Israeli intelligence knows better. Art-restorer, assassin and spy Gabriel Allon is dispatched to investigate, uncovering a major terrorist operation in London. Gabriel arrives too late to prevent the kidnapping of the daughter of the US ambassador. With time running out, Allon has no choice but to plunge into a desperate search, both for the woman and for those responsible, but the truth, when he finds it, is more terrible than he could expect. It will endanger his life and shake him to the core.
It is an exciting and entertaining novel with a terrifying message Literary Review Nerve-searing and painfully brilliant. Patricia Cornwell In true Bauer fashion, shootouts, kidnappings and international terror plots follow him wherever he goes. USA Today It reads like a prediction of continuing terrorism in Europe. The Wall Street Journal The summer's best thriller and perhaps most important novel. Military.com
Daniel Silva is the 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, Price of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant,Moscow Rules and The Defector. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.