The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel Allon series presents the second thriller featuring former CIA Agent Michael Osbourne, following The Mark of the Assassin.
When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered with three savage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into the depths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated to become the new American ambassador to London, retired CIA agent Michael Osbourne is drawn back into the game. He soon discovers that his father-in-law is marked for execution. And that he himself is once again in the crosshairs of a killer known only as October, one of the most merciless assassins the world has ever known...
About the Author
Daniel Silva is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, and the Gabriel Allon series, including The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, The English Spy, The Black Widow, and House of Spies. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world.
Praise For…
“Almost unbearable tension…[the] prose urges you on like a silencer poking at the small of your back.”—Entertainment Weekly
“[A] Tom Clancy-esque thriller.”—USA Today
“Ingenious.”—The Washington Post
“Fascinating...a novel of plots and counterplots...The relationship between Osbourne and October is rich in detail and complexity.”—The Orlando Sentinel
“Rousing…Movie-tense action sequences [and] a hero worth rooting for.”—Kirkus Reviews
"Starting with a bang and escalating from there, Silva’s latest has everything you would expect from a thriller.”—The Rocky Mountain News
