The Fallen Angel

Lynch, and the greater Kobak family. Former First Lady Barbara Bush and President George H. W. Bush have been a constant source of support throughout my writing career, as has their amazing chief of staff, Jean Becker, who truly runs the world from her offices in Houston and Kennebunkport. Doug Banker made certain that the time away from my desk was filled with as much fun and music as possible. Dr. Benjamin Shaffer, Washington’s preeminent orthopedic surgeon, expertly repaired a shoulder injury that made writing a novel even more painful than usual. Bob Barnett, Michael Gendler, and Linda Rappaport were a source of wise legal counsel and much laughter.
    Special thanks to the remarkable team of professionals at HarperCollins, especially Jonathan Burnham, Brian Murray, Michael Morrison, Jennifer Barth, Josh Marwell, Tina Andreadis, Leslie Cohen, Leah Wasielewski, Mark Ferguson, Kathy Schneider, Brenda Segel, Carolyn Bodkin, Doug Jones, Karen Dziekonski, Archie Ferguson, David Watson, Cindy Achar, David Koral, and Leah Carlson-Stanisic.
    I wish to extend my deepest gratitude and love to my children, Nicholas and Lily. Not only did they assist me with the final preparation of my manuscript, but they were at my side on a remarkable research trip that took us from the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica to the Etruscan tombs in Cerveteri, to an ancient aqueduct beneath Jerusalem. Finally, I must thank my wife, the brilliant NBC News journalist Jamie Gangel, who skillfully edited each of my drafts and listened with remarkable forbearance as I worked through the plot and themes of this, the twelfth novel in the Gabriel Allon series. Were it not for her patience and attention to detail, The Fallen Angel would not have been completed by its deadline. My debt to her is immeasurable, as is my love.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
     
    D ANIEL S ILVA IS THE NUMBER ONE New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy , The Mark of the Assassin , The Marching Season , The 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 , and Portrait of a Spy . He is married to NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel; they live in Washington, D.C., with their two children, Lily and Nicholas. In 2009 Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.
     
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A LSO BY D ANIEL S ILVA
     
Portrait of a Spy
     
The Rembrandt Affair
     
The Defector
     
Moscow Rules
     
The Secret Servant
     
The Messenger
     
Prince of Fire
     
A Death in Vienna
     
The Confessor
     
The English Assassin
     
The Kill Artist
     
The Marching Season
     
The Mark of the Assassin
     
The Unlikely Spy
     

CREDITS
     
    Cover photograph © Abdul Kadir Audah/Getty Images
    Cover design by Archie Ferguson

COPYRIGHT
     
    The Fallen Angel is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents portrayed in the story are the product of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
     
    THE FALLEN ANGEL . Copyright © 2012 by Daniel Silva. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
     
    FIRST EDITION
     
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
     
    ISBN: 978-0-06-207312-9 (Hardcover)
    ISBN: 978-0-06-220364-9 (International Edition)
    ISBN: 978-0-06-219145-8 (Signed Edition)
     
    Epub Edition © JULY 2012 ISBN: 9780062073174
     
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