Daniel Silva · 2000 · thriller
Daniel Silva's 2000 novel, introducing Gabriel Allon. A Mossad assassin turned art restorer, living quietly in Cornwall, Allon is pulled back into the game when the Palestinian terrorist who murdered his family resurfaces in Paris. The hunt becomes a globe-spanning duel - through Paris and Vienna and across the Atlantic to New York, where Tariq means to shatter a peace summit with one last kill.
- 1Cornwall
In a quiet creekside village in Cornwall, the former Mossad operative Gabriel Allon lives in retirement as a master art restorer, until his old spymaster Ari Shamron appears at his door with a name from his past.
- 2Paris
The Israeli ambassador has been murdered in Paris, the killing bearing the mark of Tariq - the terrorist who years before planted the car bomb that killed Allon's son and maimed his wife. Allon takes the hunt.
- 3Vienna
The chase winds through the capitals of Europe and back to Vienna, the city of Allon's deepest wound, as he and his agent close in on a man who knows him as intimately as he knows his prey.
- 4New York
The duel ends in New York, where Tariq plans to detonate the fragile Middle East peace by assassinating the Israeli prime minister at a summit - and Allon must stop him at the last, at terrible personal cost.