The Secret Servant - Gabriel Allon

“Allon is Israel’s Jack Bauer…Thrill factor:*****.”— USA Today “The action moves quickly, the subject matter feels impressively current, and Silva’s multidimensional characters seem instantly like old friends.”— The Washington Post “A rollicking espionage thriller.”— The Columbus Dispatch “A compelling thriller…It would be difficult indeed to find a more timely novel on a more urgent topic than The Secret Servant . May there be many more novels featuring Gabriel Allon.”— Tampa Tribune “Harrowing international intrigue, all the more so for being so topical.”— New York Daily News “Nobody handles this kind of intrigue as well Silva. He gives Gabriel and the rest of his team the kind of depth seen only in spy novels by Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy.”— Richmond Times Dispatch Informationen zum Autor Daniel Silva is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy , The Mark of the Assassin , The Marching Season , and the Gabriel Allon series, including The Kill Artist , The English Assassin , The Confessor , A Death in Vienna , Prince of Fire , The Messenger , The Secret Servant , Moscow Rules , The Defector , The Rembrandt Affair , Portrait of a Spy , The Fallen Angel , The English Girl , The Heist , The English Spy , The Black Widow , and House of Spies . His books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world. Klappentext A terrorist plot in London leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon on a desperate search for a kidnapped woman in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. While in Amsterdam, Israeli intelligence officer and master art restorer Gabriel Allon discovers a plot that is about to explode in the middle of London. The daughter of the American ambassador is to be brutally kidnapped. But Gabriel arrives too late to save her. And when he reveals his face to the plot's masterminds, his fate is sealed as well. Drawn once more into the service of American intelligence, Gabriel desperately searches for the missing woman as the clock ticks steadily toward the hour of her execution. The search will thrust him into an unlikely alliance with a man who has lost everything because of his devotion to Islam. It will cause him to question the morality of the tactics of his trade. And it might very well cost him his life… A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year 1 Amsterdam It was Professor Solomon Rosner who sounded the first alarm, though his name would never be linked to the affair except in the secure rooms of a drab office building in downtown Tel Aviv. Gabriel Allon, the legendary but wayward son of Israeli intelligence, would later observe that Rosner was the first asset in the annals of Office history to have proven more useful to them dead than alive. Those who overheard the remark found it uncharacteristically callous but in keeping with the bleak mood that by then had settled over them all. The backdrop for Rosner’s demise was not Israel, where violent death occurs all too frequently, but the normally tranquil quarter of Amsterdam known as the Old Side. The date was the first Friday in December, and the weather was more suited to early spring than the last days of autumn. It was a day to engage in what the Dutch so fondly refer to as gezelligheid , the pursuit of small pleasures: an aimless stroll through the flower stalls of the Bloemenmarkt, a lager or two in a good bar in the Rembrandtplein, or, for those so inclined, a bit of fine cannabis in the brown coffeehouses of the Haarlemmerstraat. Leave the fretting and the fighting to the hated Americans, stately old Amsterdam murmured that golden late-autumn afternoon. Today we give thanks for having been ...

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Allon is Israel s Jack Bauer Thrill factor:*****. USA Today

The action moves quickly, the subject matter feels impressively current, and Silva s multidimensional characters seem instantly like old friends. The Washington Post

A rollicking espionage thriller. The Columbus Dispatch

A compelling thriller It would be difficult indeed to find a more timely novel on a more urgent topic than The Secret Servant. May there be many more novels featuring Gabriel Allon. Tampa Tribune

Harrowing international intrigue, all the more so for being so topical. New York Daily News

Nobody handles this kind of intrigue as well Silva. He gives Gabriel and the rest of his team the kind of depth seen only in spy novels by Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy. Richmond Times Dispatch

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Silva
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.06.2008
• EAN: 9780451224507
• ISBN: 978-0-451-22450-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 190 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Signet; Gabriel Allon; Gabriel Allon Novels; Gabriel Allon Series; Gabriel Allon; Gabriel Allon Series
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense