Daniel Silva
21) The messenger
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London and photographs are found that lead Isreali intelligence to suspect terrorists are planning an attack at the Vatican. Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, warns his old friend Monsignor Luigi Donati, the pope's private secretary, and then rushes to Rome to assist with security, but what neither man knows is that the Vatican has already been thoroughly penetrated by an extraordinary enemy who is one of the most...
22) The confessor
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A writer, a Mossad agent, and the "Pope Accidental" will all follow a trail of intrigue, long-buried secrets, and unthinkable deeds that will leave each one forever changed. Death will stalk their paths as all three walk in the shadow of the Confessor.
23) Prince of fire
Author
Language
English
Description
A knife-edged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling, filled with exhilarating prose, this is Daniel Silva's finest novel yet. Gabriel Allon is pitted against a Palestinian mastermind, as hunter and hunted pursue each other across a landscape drenched with generations of blood.
25) Moscow rules
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest...
27) The defector
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gabriel Allon's idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel's life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise--a promise that leads to a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world's most ruthless men:...
28) Language as Hope
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing,...
29) Casa de esp©Ưas
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 17
Description
Legendary spy, assassin, and art restorer Gabriel Allon is back, and out for revenge, determined to hunt down the world's most dangerous terrorist.