The English Spy

The English Spy
Daniel Silva

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon.She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. When a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down herkiller: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon.Gabriel’s target is Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. Fortunately Gabriel does not pursue him alone; at his side is Christopher Keller, a British commando turned professional assassin who knows Quinn’s murderous handiwork all too well.And though Gabriel does not realize it, he is stalking an old enemy—a cabal of evil that wants nothing more than to see him dead. Gabriel will find it necessary to oblige them, for when a man is out for vengeance, death has its distinct advantages….

Daniel Silva

The English Spy

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HarperCollinsPublishers

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copyright © Daniel Silva 2015

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Cover photographs © Peter Bagi / Gallery Stock (stairwell); Henry Steadman (figure).

Map designed by Leah Nick Springer

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This is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007552337

Ebook Edition © JULY 2015 ISBN: 9780007552320

Version: 2015-11-17

Dedication (#u4b2a7299-a82f-5ca2-85b7-eb236d09bf93)

For Betsy and Andy Lack.

And, as always, for my wife, Jamie,

and my children, Lily and Nicholas.

Epigraph (#u4b2a7299-a82f-5ca2-85b7-eb236d09bf93)

When a man rubs out a pencil-mark, he should be careful to see that the line is quite obliterated. For if a secret is to be kept, no precautions are too great.

— GRAHAM GREENE, THE MINISTRY OF FEAR

No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.

— MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Table of Contents

Cover (#ua1c69d8a-051f-5dc0-8feb-cccd5de15ec3)

Title Page (#u271fb7a4-0e9e-5801-b107-a38e8922a2b1)

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Dedication (#u054fbe0d-8289-5318-bb6a-ee89d3fb2cb6)

Epigraph (#u304f12c0-b7c2-56bc-b23f-4d45b569ec8c)

Map (#u225e85ba-49ec-5a04-9a52-c95fce6e68e8)

Part One: Death of a Princess (#u66a2192c-01de-593d-b355-3d1b517f89bc)

Chapter 1: Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy (#u52482dae-5560-50cf-a5cc-6098d3c999cd)

Chapter 2: Off the Leeward Islands (#u5a8522cd-4fe7-5057-b565-b0554a2c655e)

Chapter 3: The Caribbean–London (#ucd1c798d-daef-559f-901b-ad93c56192da)

Chapter 4: Vauxhall Cross, London (#ue9be81eb-6abd-5fed-a696-965ef46c34a1)

Chapter 5: Fiumicino Airport, Rome (#ua2aa2e5d-2ca3-5d50-9927-b581cedb89b4)

Chapter 6: Via Gregoriana, Rome (#u6ecfb9fe-ae7c-5732-9bc2-a36e785846fe)

Chapter 7: Via Gregoriana, Rome (#uf260c59b-e1a0-5290-a8aa-f198e0393ff5)

Chapter 8: Via Gregoriana, Rome (#ue31e7bdc-e61e-5584-81a2-accaf432e83d)

Chapter 9: Berlin–Corsica (#u004ac6f4-bd27-5aee-9e1e-f816c137811c)

Chapter 10: Corsica (#u613a3705-47ec-5ca8-8469-d5ccb06bb38f)

Chapter 11: Corsica (#u253afd0e-b333-587c-a19b-fa58ec7e1824)