I must confess I haven't read this book, I picked it up at a Christmas sale in an atempt to give this author one last chance but when I read the back cover and saw the word al-Qaeda I just quit, the last thing I want to read is some american writer's take on al-Qaeda, they've done enough already just manipulating the ghost of this terrorist organization.
The book won the 2007 Barry Award for Best Thriller and Publishers Weekly had this to say about it:
"Bestseller Silva continues to warrant comparisons to John le Carré, as shown by his latest thriller starring Israeli art restorer and spymaster Gabriel Allon. Ahmed bin Shafiq, a former chief of a clandestine Saudi intelligence unit, targets the Vatican for attack, in particular Pope Paul VII and his top aide, Monsignor Luigi Donati, who both appeared in Silva's previous novel, Prince of Fire. Shafiq, who now heads his own terrorist network, is allied with a militant Islamic Saudi businessman known as Zizi, a true believer committed to the destruction of all infidels. Gabriel's challenge is to infiltrate Zizi's organization, a task he assigns to a beautiful American art expert, Sarah Bancroft. Gabriel promises he'll protect her, but plans go awry, and by the end Sarah faces torture and death. While Sarah's fate is never in doubt, the way Silva resolves his plot will keep readers right where he wants them: on the edges of their seats."

On it goes to ElHurricane as a part of the Bookxcerpts box by fbeatriz.

And here it is!
Thanks kizmiaz.
I've read one book from Daniel Silva and I loved it!

As I got a portuguese version of it, it goes to fbeatriz.
It's my ERA (Experiência RABCK de Aniversário) 2008 gift.
Happy birthday!
I hope you like it.

Eu nem estava a perceber de onde vinha este livro, mas já se fez luz!
Obrigado Hurricane!

Beijinhos!!!

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To a english teacher. I hope she will be a bookcrosser too! This is the starting point to her!


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