Daniel Silva · 2018 · thriller
Daniel Silva's 2018 novel. In a mountain village in Andalusia, a Frenchwoman writes a memoir that guards the Kremlin's oldest secret - a KGB mole buried at the very heart of Western intelligence. When his best Russian asset is gunned down defecting in Vienna, Gabriel Allon races the traitor's trail to a final showdown in the shadows of Moscow.
- 1Andalusia
In an isolated village high in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins a dangerous memoir - the story of a man she loved long ago in Beirut, a child stolen from her, and the Kremlin's deepest secret.
- 2Vienna
On a rain-swept street in Vienna, Gabriel Allon's most valuable Russian asset is shot dead as he tries to defect, and Allon realizes he has been betrayed - that a mole sits deep inside Western intelligence.
- 3Moscow
Following the traitor's trail back through decades of Cold War treachery, Allon is drawn toward Moscow and a final, epic reckoning with the Russians - with the very survival of the postwar order hanging on the outcome.