The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon)

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He has been called his generation's finest writer of international intrigue, one of America's most gifted spy novelists ever, and the successor to Graham Greene and John le CarrŽ. But with his follow-up to the 2006 electrifying number one bestseller The Messenger, Daniel Silva has written his most compelling and entertaining novel to date.

When last we encountered Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, he had just prevailed in his blood-soaked duel with Saudi terrorist financier Zizi al-Bakari. Now Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst who also happened to be an asset of Israeli intelligence. But once in Amsterdam, Gabriel soon discovers a conspiracy of terror festering in the city's Islamic underground, a plot that is about to explode on the other side of the English Channel, in the middle of London.

The target of this plot is Elizabeth Halton, the daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who is to be brutally kidnapped. Gabriel arrives seconds too late to save her. And by revealing his face to the plot's masterminds, his fate is sealed as well. Drawn once more into the service of American intelligence, Gabriel hurls himself into a desperate search for the missing woman as the clock ticks steadily toward the hour of her execution. It will take him from Amsterdam to Germany to the very end of Denmark. It will thrust him into an unlikely alliance with a man who has lost everything because of his devotion to Islam. It will cause him to question the morality of the tactics of his trade. And it might very well cost him his life.

Filled with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot, and a final mind-bending sequence that will leave readers breathless, The Secret Servant is not only a work of supreme entertainment, but also an exploration of some of the most daunting issues of our times: the war on terrorism, the weapons the West uses to wage it, and the time bomb now ticking in the heart of Western Europe.

Customer Reviews:

te secret servant Jul 26, 2010

the book came just like i was promised and i was very happy. janice

the secret servant Jun 09, 2010

remember the old story "i bet you can't eat just one". the same holds true for any book written by Daniel Silva "Gabriel Allon". you can't read just one. when you read one you must read all of them.

Outstanding! Jun 08, 2010

I thought the characters were memoriable and relastic. After having read a novel where the characters where anything but 'mortal' or real in a sense of them being down to earth was a nice touch. There are not to many characters and the actions remains steady and moving and the ending is top notch if not a bit repetive. I would recommend this book as it gives deep insight into the islslamic terrorist mind in many cases and it feels as if your are ready a semi-documentry at the same time. It at least gave me something to chew on for a little while after reading it.

Very good modern day spy thriller May 10, 2010

Silva does it again. Good pacing, up to date current events. Likable heroes and dis-likable villains. Quick satisfying read.

Another Wild Ride Through Europe Apr 28, 2010

Israeli super-spy, Gabriel Allon, is called upon to thwart a terrorist plot in England that involves the kidnapping of the American ambassador's daughter.

I have enjoyed all of the Gabriel Allon books, but this is perhaps the weakest in the series to this point. Gabriel seems more like a Stallone-type hero with superpowers (such as determining near-exact locations in the world by listening to a few seconds of a recorded phone conversation) and his vocabulary has become quite coarse. Gabriel's artistic endeavors and skills are not much of a factor in this novel, either.

Gabriel is more of a regular thug in "The Secret Servant" than the thoughtful, calculating assassin present in the previous adventures. Still, "The Secret Servant" is another wild ride through Europe that is worth reading for fans of action novels.