Daniel Silva · 2011 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2011 novel. Retired again to a cottage on the Cornwall cliffs, Gabriel Allon watches helplessly as a suicide bomber slaughters a London crowd. Summoned to Washington by the CIA, he sets out to destroy a jihadist network from within - recruiting the Saudi heiress Nadia al-Bakari and sending her into the deserts of the Middle East, to Dubai and beyond, on a mission of terrible risk.

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   Cornwall

   Retired once more and restoring a portrait in a cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, Gabriel Allon is living quietly under a false name when word of a wave of European bombings begins to draw him back toward the world he left.

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   London

   In London he spots a bomber in the crowd near Covent Garden, but police wrestle him down before he can shoot, and he can only watch the slaughter - a failure that haunts him and hardens his resolve.

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   Washington

   Summoned to Washington by a desperate CIA, Allon agrees to hunt the American-born cleric in Yemen behind the attacks, devising a daring plan to destroy the terror network from the inside out.

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   Dubai

   The plan turns on Nadia al-Bakari, the Saudi heiress whose father Allon once killed. He sends her into the glittering danger of Dubai and the deserts beyond, to a meeting that may destroy the network - or her.