Daniel Silva · 2017 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2017 novel. Still hunting the elusive terror chief Saladin, Gabriel Allon goes after him through his money - a glamorous French criminal named Jean-Luc Martel. The trail runs from London to the French Riviera and across the Mediterranean into Morocco, where Allon and his allies close on Saladin's desert lair for a final, bloody reckoning.

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   London

   After a wave of ISIS attacks strikes Britain, Allon and his British counterpart Graham Seymour hatch a plan to reach Saladin not head-on but through the network of dirty money that sustains him.

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   The Riviera

   The key is Jean-Luc Martel, a charming French hotelier and secret drug baron whose fortune launders the movement's cash. On the glittering Riviera, Allon's team maneuvers Martel into working, unwillingly, for them.

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   Casablanca

   Martel's business leads them across the Mediterranean into Morocco, following the flow of hashish and blood money up the chain toward the shadowy figure who sits at the summit of Saladin's enterprise.

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   The Sahara

   At last the trail runs into the Moroccan desert, to a fortified compound where Saladin himself is run to ground - and the long hunt ends in a violent night raid at the edge of the Sahara.