About the Author

Daniel Silva is the 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, Price of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant,Moscow Rules and The Defector. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.

Reviews

It is an exciting and entertaining novel with a terrifying message Literary Review Nerve-searing and painfully brilliant. Patricia Cornwell In true Bauer fashion, shootouts, kidnappings and international terror plots follow him wherever he goes. USA Today It reads like a prediction of continuing terrorism in Europe. The Wall Street Journal The summer's best thriller and perhaps most important novel. Military.com

It is an exciting and entertaining novel with a terrifying message Literary Review Nerve-searing and painfully brilliant. Patricia Cornwell In true Bauer fashion, shootouts, kidnappings and international terror plots follow him wherever he goes. USA Today It reads like a prediction of continuing terrorism in Europe. The Wall Street Journal The summer's best thriller and perhaps most important novel. Military.com

In this sequel to The Messenger, Israeli intelligence officer Gabriel Allon scours the world to find the kidnapped daughter of an American ambassador. Silva capitalizes on current affairs by focusing his thriller on the machinations of European-born Islamic terrorists. Gigante does as skillful a job performing the myriad accents and languages-American, British, Danish, Dutch, German and Egyptian. He even modulates the English accents of the Arab terrorists to reflect whether or not they were born in Europe. When Silva places men and women from various cultures in the same room to converse or argue, Gigante slips from one voice to another without missing a beat. Gigante's performance is as fast-paced as the novel. He also artfully uses his vocal skills to delve into Gabriel's complex character-calm, tough and indestructible but also artistic, sentimental and romantic. This excellent matchup between reader and author makes this a chilling and riveting listen and one of the best audio productions of the year. Simultaneous release with the Putnam hardcover (Reviews, May 21). (July) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.