- The Secret Servant
The Secret Servant is a 2007
spy novel byDaniel Silva .Publisher: Putnam Adult; First edition (July 24, 2007)Plot Summary
In the last
book in the series, Gabriel Allon, the masterart restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, had just prevailed in his blood-soaked duel withSaudi terrorist financier Zizi al-Bakari. Now Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel toAmsterdam 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 terrorist conspiracy festering in the city’s Islamic underground: a plot that is about to explode on the other side of theEnglish Channel , in the middle ofLondon .The target of this plot is Elizabeth Halton, the daughter of the American ambassador to the
Court of St. James , 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.
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