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Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned 35, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel, but the manuscript he’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords....

Landing a prestigious position as a Supreme Court clerk fresh out of Yale Law, Ben Addison is on the fast track to success—until he inadvertently shares a classified secret with the wrong listener. And now the anonymous blackmailer who made a killing with Ben’s information is demanding more. Guilty of a criminal act, his golden future suddenly in jeopardy, Ben turns for help to his roommates—three childhood friends, each near the seats of Washington power—and his beautiful, whip-smart fellow clerk, Lisa Schulman. But trust is a dangerous commodity in the nation’s capital.

In corrupt Russia, an erratic Vladimir Putin is determined to forge his country into a formidable superpower once again. He intends to redraw the map of Europe and will go to impossible extremes to realize his fantasies - including shooting down a civilian airliner packed with tourists bound for China. Kremlin scientists have developed a radical new weapon that could forever alter modern warfare.

Novelista magistral, Daniel Silva ha fascinado a los lectores con una veintena de meticulosas y emocionantes novelas de espías en las que hace acto de presencia el “tan querido Gabriel Allon” (Booklist) en ingeniosas tramas que lo han llevado alrededor del mundo y de regreso, de Estados Unidos a Europa, Rusia o el Medio Oriente.

Silva regresa con otro éxito: una novela poderosa que muestra sus destacadas destrezas y su brillante imaginación y está destinada a ser una lectura obligatoria para la multitud de sus seguidores y la creciente legión de convertidos.

It’s been almost two years since investigative reporter Jack Logan and television producer Taylor Parks brought down the Institute. But soon, a series of bizarre, seemingly random murder/suicides captures Jack’s attention as a disturbing pattern emerges. Could someone be intentionally causing people to become homicidal? At the same time, Taylor is producing a story about a class action suit against a national insurance company that has reached the Supreme Court.

Las vacaciones en Venecia de Gabriel Allon se ven interrumpidas por la repentina muerte del papa Pablo VII. Su leal secretario, el arzobispo Luigi Donati, convoca a Gabriel a Roma para confiarle sus sospechas de que el Santo Padre no ha sufrido un infarto, sino que ha sido asesinado. ¿Sus razones? La desaparición del guardia de las estancias pontificias, y una carta del papa… dirigida a Gabriel.

After several assassination attempts on an allied royal, the CIA sends in operative Christina Madison - who bears a striking resemblance to the monarch - to pose as the famous princess and draw out her would-be killer. When Delta Force lieutenant Gabriel Morgan's team is assigned to Christina's undercover protection detail, he's less than thrilled. Gabe wants nothing to do with a woman whose rumored screwup nearly got her last team killed. Not to mention there's bad blood between Gabe and the CIA .

El autor best seller #1 del New York Times Daniel Silva ofrece otra impresionante novela de suspenso en su último relato lleno de acción e intriga internacional con el inimitable Gabriel Allon. Primero fué EL ASESINO INGLÉS. Entonces surgió LA NIÑA INGLESA. Ahora viene el ESPÍA INGLÉS......

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens.

Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl is just itching for the opportunity to sell out. Then good fortune comes knocking in the guise of William Prescott III, an attorney from one of the city's most prestigious firms. Prescott wants Victor to represent a councilman's aide who is on trial, along with his boss, for extortion, arson, and murder. And all Carl has to do is show up, shut up, and follow Prescott's lead. But it soon becomes clear that someone's setting him and his client up to take a long, hard fall.

In the frozen wastes of Siberia, a silver artifact is stolen from a dead man . . . In the Middle East, the carefully planned strike on a terrorist leader goes disastrously wrong . . . Two seemingly unrelated incidents have placed the former CIA covert operative-turned-freelance spy, code-named Scorpion, in a desperate position: joining forces with a beautiful woman to prevent the assassination of a powerful Ukrainian politician. But treachery breeds terror in the long shadow of a dangerous Russia....

When Matthew Spear, a young curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meets the lovely Ana Kessler, an art dealer who has inherited an impressive group of pieces, he discovers a prize: the collection includes the Holy Mother of Katarini, a sacred icon long thought destroyed. But while Matthew recognizes the Icon's value as a work of art, he also discovers that it may carry a far greater significance.

The head of Egypt's State Internal Security is brutally murdered in a Cairo cafe - his assailant a faceless killer known only as "the Palestinian". It is the opening move in a chilling game of terror that has caught the international intelligence community completely off-guard, and the CIA turns to the one man they believe can get to the twisted roots of a looming nightmare shrouded in mystery: a former Company operative code-named Scorpion.

Allison Leahy is the U.S. attorney general and the highly touted Democratic nominee for the presidency. Her opponent is Lincoln Howe, a retired 4-star army general and bona fide African-American hero. Both candidates are living the American dream, until their neck-and-neck campaign takes an ominous turn when Howe's 12-year-old granddaughter, Kristen, is kidnapped on her way to school.

In Switzerland, a brutally efficient hit squad storms the U.S. embassy, stealing classified files and leaving no witnesses alive. Under intense political pressure to find those behind the attack - with Congressional leaders demanding military action - the CIA turns to the deadliest agent they know: Scorpion. But Scorpion is unwilling to get involved...until he learns his name is at the top of one of the stolen lists.

Un aire de misterio envuelve a una de las nuevas alumnas de un exclusivo colegio privado en Suiza. Se trata de una hermosa chica de lustrosa melena azabache que llega todas las mañanas escoltada por una caravana digna de un jefe de estado. Se dice que es hija de un poderoso empresario, pero es en realidad hija del príncipe heredero de Arabia Saudí. Cuando la joven es despiadadamente secuestrada, el príncipe acude al único capaz de rescatarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde: Gabriel Allon.

When an exiled Iranian scientist is assassinated in Washington, DC, the former FBI counterintelligence agent and ex-SEAL are pulled back into the world of clandestine ops - and the fate of the entire East Coast is at stake. Joining ranks with a heralded Mossad agent, Mayberry and Garrett pursue a skilled international killer hired to murder a legendary Israeli spymaster. Their pursuit draws them into an international conspiracy led by a power-hungry Russian oligarch intent on destroying Washington, DC, and the Navy's most important Atlantic base.

En un pequeño y aislado pueblo de la serranía de Cádiz, vive una misteriosa mujer de nacionalidad francesa que ha empezado a escribir unas memorias más que peligrosas. Es la historia de un hombre al que una vez amó en Beirut, años atrás, y de un hijo que le arrebataron en nombre de la traición. Esta mujer es la guardiana del secreto mejor guardado por el Kremlin: hace décadas la KGB infiltró a un agente doble en el mismo corazón de occidente, un topo que hoy se encuentra a las puertas del poder absoluto.

Obsessive and compulsive, Valerie Mayberry is the FBI’s counterintelligence expert on domestic terrorism. Brett Garrett is a dishonorably discharged ex-Navy SEAL coming off a secret opioid addiction and a gun for hire working as a security contractor in Eastern Europe. When a high-ranking Kremlin official with knowledge of a plan to attack the US must be smuggled out under the nose of a kleptocratic Putin-like Russian president and a ruthless general, Mayberry and Garret are thrown together to exfiltrate him and preempt a deadly poisonous strike.

Legendario espía y restaurador de arte, Gabriel Allon por fin ha roto sus lazos con la inteligencia israelí y se ha establecido tranquilamente en Venecia, el único lugar donde ha conocido de verdad la paz. Su bella esposa, Chiara, ha tomado la dirección cotidiana de la Compañía de Restauración Tiepolo, y sus dos pequeños hijos han sido inscritos con discreción en la escuela primaria del vecindario. Por su parte, Gabriel pasa sus días paseando por las calles y los canales de la ciudad acuosa, despidiéndose de los demonios de su trágico, violento, pasado.