The Fallen Angel

The Fallen Angel
Daniel Silva

Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding #1 New York Times bestselling novel

Bruised and war-weary following his secret war to bring down a terrorist mastermind, Gabriel Allon returns to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece.

But early one morning Gabriel is summoned by his friend and occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to the Pope. The broken body of a beautiful woman lies beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome. Donati fears a public inquiry will inflict more wounds on an already-damaged Church so he calls upon Gabriel to use his matchless talents and experience to quietly pursue the truth was it suicide, or something more sinister?

Gabriel discovers that the woman revealed a dangerous secret that threatens powers beyond the Vatican. And an old enemy plots revenge in the shadows, an unthinkable act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. Once again Gabriel must return to the ranks of his old intelligence serviceand place himself, and those he holds dear, on the razor’s edge of danger.

DANIEL SILVA

The Fallen Angel

For Louis Toscano, who has been

there from the beginning. And,

as always, for my wife, Jamie, and

for my children, Lily and Nicholas.

I warn you against shedding blood,

indulging in it and making a habit of it,

for blood never sleeps.

SALADIN

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u7bc9fe94-d689-5485-9d59-ed484ae62016)

Dedication (#u71919c67-de47-531c-a041-c9a000a4654e)

Epigraph (#u686c4455-e1a0-5560-a6d3-bd0d40334244)

Maps (#uefe5ac0e-3c45-5630-b528-f89d94e23b32)

Part One: City of the Dead (#u9e664c6a-545c-5cb5-8f4a-74f45b947850)

1. Vatican City (#ud0101e6c-dab2-53a1-8231-7445ad6cb2ae)

2. Piazza di Spagna, Rome (#uf84c0e63-55c7-5642-9ead-15dffb9ead23)

3. The Sistine Chapel (#u84296e9e-96ce-500a-b18d-fdb95244404f)

4. St. Peter’s Basilica (#u55a20d5a-b89d-5a3b-8e82-5f6576ebdd88)

5. Piazza di Spagna, Rome (#u940c7169-9870-55d8-ba13-1067fc17c1a1)

6. Trastevere, Rome (#u5336b1b9-e2b0-51ee-8d34-5e3be6306019)

7. Vatican City (#u6a54569a-4d9b-51bf-9a61-46bdd9957bab)

8. Piazza di Spagna, Rome (#u84e30f7a-d64a-5b31-a212-e94a23e8051c)

9. Cerveteri, Italy (#u2b9ccbd5-8aed-5a10-81c5-3934d2ae7abb)

10. Piazza di Sant’Ignazio, Rome (#u6957c3fe-5ae4-5ef4-b4cc-9e2eb467da08)

11. Piazza di Sant’Ignazio, Rome (#u6e6ce3b6-089c-50fd-9bc9-7b4f62dbe871)

12. Villa Giulia, Rome (#ua12e08d6-c9a8-5306-b772-04696621048a)

13. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City (#litres_trial_promo)

14. The Vatican Gardens (#litres_trial_promo)

15. Piazza di Spagna, Rome (#litres_trial_promo)

16. The Via Veneto, Rome (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: City of God (#litres_trial_promo)

17. Ben Gurion Airport, Israel (#litres_trial_promo)

18. Jerusalem (#litres_trial_promo)

19. King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv (#litres_trial_promo)

20. King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv (#litres_trial_promo)

21. Rue de Miromesnil, Paris (#litres_trial_promo)

22. Quai des Célestins, Paris (#litres_trial_promo)

23. St. Moritz, Switzerland (#litres_trial_promo)

24. St. Moritz, Switzerland (#litres_trial_promo)

25. St. Moritz, Switzerland (#litres_trial_promo)

26. Bern, Switzerland (#litres_trial_promo)

27. Herndon, Virginia (#litres_trial_promo)

28. Wannsee, Berlin (#litres_trial_promo)