Daniel Silva · 2016 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2016 novel. After a savage ISIS bombing in Paris, Gabriel Allon recruits a young Israeli doctor, Natalie, and remakes her as a jihadist 'black widow' to burrow into the network of the terror mastermind Saladin. Her journey carries her from France into the heart of the caliphate in Syria - and toward a devastating attack aimed at Washington itself.

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   Paris

   A massive bomb tears through a Jewish center in Paris, the work of the shadowy ISIS commander known only as Saladin. To hunt him, Allon recruits the young doctor Natalie Mizrahi and trains her to become a widow of the jihad.

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   Raqqa

   Natalie is drawn deep into the caliphate, to Raqqa in Syria and the beating heart of ISIS, where she wins the terrorists' trust and finds herself at the center of preparations for a spectacular new atrocity.

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   Washington

   The target proves to be Washington itself, and Allon must race to unravel Saladin's plot from within before the attack he has planted at the heart of America can be unleashed on a Saturday night.