In London, a young woman vanishes...She is the daughter of the American Ambassador - and goddaughter of the President of the United States - and the kidnappers' demands are at once horrifically clear and clearly impossible to meet. The President turns to Gabriel Allon, spy turned art-restorer, a man whose abilities he has depended on before...Meanwhile, Allon had been in Amsterdam, hunting down those responsible for the brutal murder of a leading terrorism analyst. The dead man had gotten too close to uncovering the plans of a major terrorist operation - a new threat which no-one could have predicted. Allon soon finds himself in a desperate search for the missing woman, and those responsible - but the truth, when he finds it, is not what he expects. In fact, it is one that will shake him, and many others, to the core.
Author Biography
Daniel Silva has written seven previous novels, including the international bestsellers The Unlikely Spy, A Death in Vienna, The Confessor and most recently The English Assassin. His latest, The Messenger, will publish in autumn 2006. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, NBC Today correspondent Jamie Gangel.
