The Messenger

Daniel Silva's latest high-adrenaline thriller, filled with remarkable characters and breathtaking double and triple twists of plot. Former spy Gabriel Allon is about to face his greatest ever challenge . . . When an al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, photographs on his computer lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning its most audacious attack so far. p>To Allon, there is something terribly familiar about the information, something horrifyingly close - but even he does not realize how close. Urgently, he throws himself into the hunt, but there may simply not be enough of anything: enough time, enough facts, enough luck. An extraordinary enemy walks in the shadows . . . and he's just getting started. 'A world-class practitioner of spy fiction . . . Silva is a skilful novelist who does justice to the often heartbreaking material without exploiting it' Washington Post 'Nerve-searing and painfully beautiful' Patricia Cornwell