Prince of Fire [Paperback]

#1New York Timesbestselling author Daniel Silva presents a first-rate thriller (Rocky Mountain News) featuring art restorer—and reluctant spy—Gabriel Allon.

After an explosion in Rome destroys the Israeli embassy, Gabriel Allon makes a disturbing discovery—the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, and lays bare his history. Drawn into the heart of a service he’d once forsaken, Allon finds himself stalking a master terrorist across a bloody landscape generations in the making. But soon, Allon will wonder who is stalking whom.

When the final showdown comes, it won’t be Allon alone who is threatened with destruction. For it is not his history alone that has been exposed... [Prince of Fire] goes places readers can’t predict and then goes further. [Silva’s] plotting is ingenious. —Detroit Free Press

[A] tense cat-and-mouse plot. —The New Yorker

An intricate web of deceit and double-cross. —USA Today

A story that seems ripped from the headlines...chilling suspense. —Booklist

Silva keeps getting better. —Library JournalDaniel Silvais the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Unlikely Spy,The Mark of the Assassin,The Marching Season, and the Gabriel Allon series, includingThe Kill Artist,The English Assassin,The Confessor,A Death in Vienna,Prince of Fire,The Messenger,The Secret Servant,Moscow Rules,The Defector,The Rembrandt Affair,Portrait of a Spy,The Fallen Angel,The English Girl,The Heist,The English Spy,The Black Widow, andHouse of Spies. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world.

Chapter 1

ROME: MARCH 4

THERE HAD BEEN WARNIl"