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 Carré. 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.

“A world class practitioner of spy fiction.”  -- The Washington Post



“Not one for cookie-cutter cheap thrills, Silva’s mastered the art of weaving provocative narrative, espionage and foreign intrigue.  His protagonists are always flawed, never invincible.  His bad guys are peppered with good qualities…  And history’s dark side—whether it’s tackling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Holocaust—is meticulously researched, emotionally charged and hauntingly sexy, straddling the fine line between reality and fantasy.”  -- Chicago Sun Times



“Silva is the perfect guide to explain the passionate, complicated and often misinterpreted history of Arab-Israeli relations.”  -- Orlando Sentinel



“Silva writes with care and skill.  He has a knack for local color, and Allon, his main character, is refreshingly human—world-weary, given to self-doubt and seemingly always wrestling with an inner demon of some sort.” -- St. Louis Post Dispatch



The extraordinary new novel from the New York Times-bestselling writer “who brings new life to the international thriller” (Newsday)

Daniel Silva is the author of the bestselling novels 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, and THE MESSENGER. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, NBC Today correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children.