The Mark Of The Assassin

Zusatztext “A terrific thriller…one of the best-drawn fictional assassins since The Day of the Jackal .”— The San Francisco Examiner “A must-read.”— Entertainment Weekly   “Split-second suspense by an inventive ace of the genre.”— Newsday “[A] fast-moving! bang-bang thriller.”— Los Angeles Daily News   “Compulsively enjoyable…Silva keeps the double-crosses moving at [a] frenzied clip.”— San Francisco Chronicle   “A taut spy thriller…Silva’s writing is clean! his characterizations pithy. And he keeps readers guessing.”— New York Post “A strong! driving pace...Its two main characters cannot be denied.”— Chicago Tribune 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 CIA Agent Michael Osbourne stars in this suspenseful series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel Allon novels. When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the east coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin. Only agent Michael Osbourne has seen the markings before-on a woman he once loved. Now, it's personal for Osbourne. Consumed by his dark obsession with the assassin, he's willing to risk his family, his career, and his life-to settle a score… A PEOPLE PAGE-TURNER OF THE WEEK October Off Long Island, New York THEY MADE THE ATTEMPT on the third night. The first night was no good: heavy cloud cover, intermittent rain, windblown squalls. The second night was clear, with a good moon, but a bitter northwest wind made the seas too rough. Even the oceangoing motor yacht was buffeted about. It would be hell in the Boston Whaler. They needed a calm sea to carry it off from the Whaler, so they motored farther out and spent a seasick night waiting. That morning, the third morning, the marine forecast was promising: diminishing winds, gentle seas, a slow-moving front with clear weather behind it. The forecast proved accurate. The third night was perfect. HIS REAL NAME was Hassan Mahmoud, but he had always found it rather dull for an Islamic freedom fighter, so he had granted himself a more venturous nom de guerre, Abu Jihad. He was born in Gaza and raised by an uncle in a squalid refugee camp near Gaza City. His politics were forged by the stones and fire of the Intifada. He joined Hamas, fought Israelis in the streets, buried two brothers and more friends than he could remember. He was wounded once himself, his right shoulder shattered by an Israeli army bullet. The doctors said he would never regain full use of the arm. Hassan Mahmoud, alias Abu Jihad, learned to throw stones with his left. THE YACHT WAS 110 FEET in length, with six staterooms, a large salon, and an aft deck large enough to accommodate a cocktail party of sixty people. The bridge was state of the art, with satellite navigation and communication systems. It was designed for a crew of three, but two good men could handle it easily. They had set out from the tiny port of Gustavia on the Caribbean island of Saint-Barthilemy eight days earlier and had taken...

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A terrific thriller one of the best-drawn fictional assassins since The Day of the Jackal. The San Francisco Examiner

A must-read. Entertainment Weekly
 
Split-second suspense by an inventive ace of the genre. Newsday

[A] fast-moving, bang-bang thriller. Los Angeles Daily News
 
Compulsively enjoyable Silva keeps the double-crosses moving at [a] frenzied clip. San Francisco Chronicle
 
A taut spy thriller Silva s writing is clean, his characterizations pithy. And he keeps readers guessing. New York Post

A strong, driving pace...Its two main characters cannot be denied. Chicago Tribune

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Silva
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2003
• EAN: 9780451209313
• ISBN: 978-0-451-20931-3
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Michael Osbourne; Gabriel Allon Novels; The Michael Osbourne Novels; Michael Osbourne; The Michael Osbourne Novels
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense