The English Girl

The English Girl
Daniel Silva

Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new thriller from No.1 bestselling author Daniel Silva. For all fans of Robert Ludlum.

When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister’s career is threatened with destruction. And Gabriel Allon, master art restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth…

The English Girl

Daniel Silva

Copyright (#ulink_59e93cf2-2bcb-5bd7-92c1-2bf7488f9a9c)

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

Copyright © Daniel Silva 2013

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Cover photographs © Elizabeth Ansley/Arcangel Images (woman); Mark Owen/Trevillion Images (city scene)

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Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007433377

Version: 2014-07-03

Dedication (#ulink_a5477289-542d-5b45-af2e-897876f84b8c)

Once again, for my wife, Jamie,and my children, Lily and Nicholas

He who lives an immoral lifedies an immoral death.

CORSICAN PROVERB

Table of Contents

Cover (#u1f41b2b2-1ddf-5636-8d39-2611f984b127)

Title Page (#u362cce9e-9baa-5b1d-a900-c0d63e17221b)

Copyright (#uff4d443f-b28d-5b1b-b22e-f7020cbe6895)

Dedication (#ud8f2606f-e5ca-58d5-adbb-890362d81cd1)

Epigraph (#u21b02afa-49e3-509f-a7c9-c7163083ce48)

Part One: The Hostage (#u0f520e0c-db51-55fc-96aa-b105035cf66d)

1. Piana, Corsica (#u4f76c88b-d326-5072-9007-68ed6b601067)

2. Corsica–London (#ud54330a8-04b2-5dec-85db-86a42b676a73)

3. Jerusalem (#u8327a574-4e7b-5491-9322-742900dee3b4)

4. King David Hotel, Jerusalem (#u3ddc1e90-7103-5f47-af7a-6f9c2389d2a0)

5. King David Hotel, Jerusalem (#u3bdd3dbc-682d-547b-a5d9-0b68ee287ecf)

6. Israel Museum, Jerusalem (#u65f2cc6d-4996-5e5f-b37f-8b28e27f10d5)

7. Corsica (#ue0f4080e-fcb2-5a79-ab37-ce04531bbc7b)

8. Corsica (#ue04c6922-bbd4-5eac-b5b1-8a5f9a6cf95b)

9. Corsica (#u5591a233-5e97-565c-b91e-c00641cbaec8)

10. Marseilles (#u90813328-c7c9-52ab-9fa2-495cc541c9de)

11. Off Marseilles (#u0d09187e-ad0c-5181-ac02-1c29b8ed711d)

12. Off Marseilles (#u6cefc600-8823-5865-8de4-f5c9723ff20d)

13. Côte D’Azur, France (#ufad0627d-5fc1-5b3c-bf43-41282b57edb3)

14. Aix-En-Provence, France (#u087bd7c1-4305-562f-937e-231ed7b530ee)

15. Aix-En-Provence, France (#litres_trial_promo)

16. The Lubéron, France (#litres_trial_promo)

17. Paris (#litres_trial_promo)

18. Apt, France (#litres_trial_promo)