Churchill asks an academic, Professor Alfred Vicary, to help ferret out the Germans and prevent them from conveying this vital information to their homeland. Prime Minister Winston Churchill becomes aware that a group of Nazi spies in England have learned of the Allied plans to invade France via Normandy rather than Calais-the decoy location. His first novel, The Unlikely Spy, is set in England, near the close of World War II. SIDELIGHTS:įormer television journalist and producer Daniel Silva has established himself as a major voice in the espionage fiction genre. The Secret Servant, Putnam (New York, NY), 2007. The Messenger, Putnam (New York, NY), 2006. Prince of Fire, Putnam (New York, NY), 2005. The Confessor, Putnam (New York, NY), 2003.Ī Death in Vienna, Putnam (New York, NY), 2004. The English Assassin, Putnam (New York, NY), 2002. The Kill Artist, Random House (New York, NY), 2000.

The Marching Season, Random House (New York, NY), 1999. The Mark of the Assassin, Random House (New York, NY), 1998. The Unlikely Spy, Villard ( New York, NY), 1996. Has appeared on television programs, including The Today Show.

United Press International, staff member, 1984-88 Cable News Network (CNN), Atlanta, GA, executive producer of political news programs, including International Hour, World Today, Prime News, Crossfire, The Capital Gang, Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics Weekend, 1988-97. Newspaper and television journalist, writer.

Agent-Esther Newberg, International Creative Management, 40 W. Education: San Francisco State University, graduate study. Set these colorful and varied characters against a brilliant background of political intrigue and vengeance at the highest levels and a manhunt that covers three continents, and the result is a smart and electrically exciting global thriller.Born 1960, in MI married Jamie Gangel (a broadcast journalist), 1987 children: Lily, Nicholas (twins). The story features a vivid and fascinating supporting cast, including the magus-like Ari Shamron, a beautiful French Jewish model who is seeking retribution for her family’s death in the Holocaust, and a marvelously comic down-at-the-heels London art dealer.

The architect of this plot, a Palestinian zealot named Tariq, is a lethal part of Gabriel’s past, so as the two begin an intercontinental game of hide-and-seek, with life and death as the prizes, the motives are as personal as they are political. Now Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, needs Gabriel’s particular kind of experience to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the peace negotiations in the Middle East. Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel’s terrorist enemies.īut when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments.

The kill artist