In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the worlds most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. Promise me I wont end up in an unmarked grave. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same.

He also knows he made a promise.ĭo you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel's life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace.

But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance, and courage created by the writer whom the critics call 'the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world' (Orlando Sentinel).Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. Filled with breathtaking turns of plot and populated by a remarkable cast of characters, The Defector is more than the most explosive thriller of the summer. There, Allon uncovers a much greater conspiracy, a plot by an old enemy to resurrect a network of death, to bring the world to the precipice of a new confrontation, and in order to stop it, he must risk everything: his ties to an organization he has served since his youth, his new marriage.

In the British capital, he finds himself once more on the front lines of the secret war between East and West, where Russian spies and dissidents engage in the old game of cat and mouse. To discover the truth and clear his name, Allon must go immediately to London - a decision that will prove to be the most fateful of his career. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, and they blame Allon for planting him.

The man who saved Allon's life in Moscow and was then resettled in England has vanished without a trace. Six months after the blood-soaked conclusion of Moscow Rules, Allon is in Umbria, trying to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, when a colleague pays him a shocking visit. Now he takes that tale to the next level. His latest bestseller, Moscow Rules, was not only superior entertainment, but a prescient cautionary tale about the emergence of the New Russia. Over the course of a remarkable career, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue, a craftsman worthy of comparison to John le Carré and Graham Greene.

The Defector by Daniel Silva