Daniel Silva · 2013 · thriller
Daniel Silva's 2013 novel. Madeline Hart, a rising British political star and the prime minister's secret mistress, is kidnapped while on holiday in Corsica, with seven days to live. Gabriel Allon is enlisted to find her - a desperate hunt that leads from the hills of Provence to the corridors of Downing Street and, at last, into the ruthless heart of Moscow.
- 1Corsica
On the sun-baked island of Corsica, Madeline Hart - a gifted young star of the British ruling party, and the secret lover of the prime minister - is snatched by unknown kidnappers who threaten to expose and kill her within a week.
- 2Provence
Gabriel Allon takes up the search from a base in the south of France, working the ransom demands and the shadow world of the Corsican underworld to find the thread that will lead him to the missing woman.
- 3London
The trail runs to London and the highest levels of British power, where Allon comes to see that Madeline's kidnapping is no simple crime but the opening move of a far larger and darker conspiracy.
- 4Moscow
At its center, as ever, lies Moscow - a Kremlin scheme of oil, money, and murder - and Allon must go once more into the lion's den of Russia to save the English girl and expose the men behind it.