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Seven days
One girl
No second chances
Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain's governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed. But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster. Somehow, her kidnappers have learned of the affair, and they intend to make the British leader pay dearly for his sins. Fearful of a scandal that will destroy his career, Lancaster decides to handle the matter privately rather than involve the British police. It is a risky gambit, not only for the prime minister but also for the operative who will conduct the search.
You have seven days, or the girl dies.
Enter Gabriel Allon—master assassin, art restorer and spy—who is no stranger to dangerous assignments or political intrigue. With the clock ticking, Gabriel embarks on a desperate attempt to bring Madeline home safely. His mission takes him from the criminal underworld of Marseilles to an isolated valley in the mountains of Provence to the stately if faded corridors of power in London—and, finally, to a pulse-pounding climax in Moscow, a city of violence and spies where there is a long list of men who wish Gabriel dead.
From the novel's opening pages until the shocking ending when the true motives behind Madeline's disappearance are revealed, The English Girl will hold readers spellbound. It is a timely reminder that, in today's world, money often matters more than ideology. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva has been called his generation's finest writer of suspense and foreign intrigue.
When the disappearance of a single woman threatens to bring down a government, Gabriel Allon is called in to solve the mystery as quickly and surreptitiously as possible. Daniel Silva's suspenseful novels about this most reluctant spy continues to gather new readers.
Verdict Silva is a sure bet for thriller fans; his 13th action-packed, globe-trotting espionage adventure won’t disappoint. [See Prepub Alert, 1/14/13.]—Melissa DeWild, Kent Dist. Lib., Comstock Park, MI
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Daniel Silva is the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, and The Fallen Angel. He is married to NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel; they live in Washington, D.C., with their two children, Lily and Nicholas. In 2009 Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Silva was still at CNN when, with the encouragement of his wife, he began work on his first novel, a WWII espionage thriller. Published in 1997, The Unlikely Spy became a surprise bestseller and garnered critical acclaim. ("Evocative... memorable..." said The Washington Post; "Briskly suspenseful," raved The New York Times). On the heels of this somewhat unexpected success, Silva quit his job to concentrate on writing.
Other books followed, all earning respectable reviews; but it was Silva's fourth novel that proved to be his big breakthrough. Featuring a world-famous art restorer and sometime Israeli agent named Gabriel Allon, The Kill Artist (2000) fired public imagination and soared to the top of the bestseller charts. Gabriel Allon has gone on to star in several sequels, and his creator has become one of our foremost novelists of espionage intrigue, earning comparisons to such genre superstars as John Le Carré. Frederick Forsythe, and Robert Ludlum. Silva's books have been translated into more than 25 languages and have been published around the world.
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Posted Tue Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2013
I really tried to make this book last longer, but the story was too intriguing, the chapter hooks to irresistible
and the characters too complex and compelling to abandon them for very long. I figured out a few twists, although perhaps we were meant to do that
but there were still several surprises including a lovely one at the end. I know many people start mumbling "formula" when a character and a series
becomes as popular as Gabriel Allon and his adventures are, but we all want the main characters to survive to live and love in
another story,and if that puts a book in the formula category, it is inescapable and unavoidable.The Israeli "team mates" of Gabriel
Allon do not appear until the second half of the book. In the beginning, he is working hand in glove with a former enemy,
Christopher Keller,and they certainly form a delightfully dynamic duo. In the second half, Gabriel Allon rejoins his Israeli
team along with the man who nearly had become his assassin in an earlier book. This delay in bringing in the Israelis made me realize
just how much I not only like each and every team member, but how fascinating it is to read about the development of their
strategies and their deployment as the operation progresses. Although there is a strong sense that the main character will make it
through safely, there is plenty of tension and excitement as to whether all our old friends among Mossad, MI5 and the CIA will do the same.
There is also humor bubbling up here and there to relieve the tension and make these characters even more human.The fact that Gabriel Allon is no longer a man in the full flush of youth, and
all the difficulties that aging entails even, or perhaps especially, if you are a legendary spy is handled intelligently without making the main
character one iota less fascinating. If you are a Gabriel Allon fan, you will not be disappointed, and if you have not met him yet, you can start here and then go ba
to, "The Kill Artist", and follow Gabriel's progress through the years to learn how he got to his current place.This could be my favorite Daniel SIlva book - at least until
the next one.
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Overview
Seven days
One girl
No second chances
Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain's governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed. But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster. Somehow, her kidnappers have learned of the affair, and they intend to make the British leader pay dearly for his sins. Fearful of a scandal ...