The Messenger

Publisher Marketing: Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon warns his old friend Monsignor Luigi Donati, the pope s private secretary, and rushes to Rome to assist in security, but what neither he nor Donati knows is that the Vatican has been thoroughly penetrated. An extraordinary enemy walks among them and he s just getting started. In the days and weeks to come, Allon and his colleagues will find themselves in a deadly duel of wits against one of the most dangerous men in the world a hunt that will take them across Europe to the Caribbean and back. But for them, there may simply not be enough of anything: enough time, enough facts, enough luck. All Allon can do is set his trap and hope that he is not the one caught in it." Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 07/28/2006 pg. 69 (EAN 9781597222006, Hardcover) Library Journal 01/01/2007 pg. 164 (EAN 9781596000308, Compact Disc) Publishers Weekly 10/02/2006 pg. 56 (EAN 9781596000292, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2006 pg. 66 (EAN 9780399153358, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/19/2006 pg. 40 (EAN 9780399153358, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 72 (EAN 9780399153358, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 8 (EAN 9780399153358, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2007 pg. 80 (EAN 9780399153358, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 846 (EAN 9780399153358, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Silva, Daniel Daniel Silva is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Moscow Rules and 10 other international bestselling spy novels. Best known for his Gabriel Allon series, his books are translated into more than 25 languages. Silva lives in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC with his wife, NBC Today National Correspondent Jamie Gangel and their twins Lily and Nicholas. Photo of the author: John Earle, photographerContributor Bio:  Lane, Christopher Christopher Lane is a prolific writer who has published 15 books for the inspirational and religious market, including six children's novels, one of which won the Gold Medallion Award and another the C. S. Lewis Award. He continues to write for the Christian market. This first mystery is his debut in the American Booksellers market. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.