The Other Woman

The Other Woman
Daniel Silva

From Daniel Silva, the No.1 New York Times bestselling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayal.She was his best-kept secret …In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West – a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power.Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel Allon, the legendary art restorer and assassin who serves as the chief of Israel’s vaunted secret intelligence service. Gabriel has battled the dark forces of the new Russia before, at great personal cost. Now he and the Russians will engage in a final epic showdown, with the fate of the postwar global order hanging in the balance.

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Source ISBN: 9780008280918

Ebook Edition © July 2018 ISBN: 9780008280925

Version: 2018-08-17

Dedication (#u94081071-14f2-5f1c-97f4-578aaeadd7f1)

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

Epigraph (#ulink_99da9ca0-f1fe-5b36-8baf-c4b122f4e1f5)

He was given a new lease on life when the Centre finally suggested that he take part in the training of a new generation of agents at the KGB spy school, a job he accepted with great enthusiasm. He proved an excellent teacher, imparting what he knew with pleasure, patience and devotion. He loved the work.

—YURI MODIN, My Five Cambridge Friends

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

—JEAN RHYS, Wide Sargasso Sea

Contents

Cover (#u3bd8d561-b967-5a9a-9045-01b3fa75a19e)

Title Page (#u251cc755-e077-5bfd-b361-ae8d333505d8)

Copyright (#ue6e83f08-12df-50cd-aef6-ed21fa0f1972)

Dedication

Epigraph (#u35e04a51-c445-5a0c-a842-5e91e27efb91)

Prologue (#uf9b6dfa8-ea28-5824-881c-0c7deedbe62f)

Moscow: 1974 (#u492f8096-cc42-5783-988b-3a2afc064c41)

Part One: Night Train to Vienna (#ua3f77d77-3304-563f-a268-9098502cff9b)

1. Budapest, Hungary (#u80aab615-5a49-5915-8495-a0089313f298)

2. Vienna (#ubb016ec5-2a7b-54bb-b400-37718e660655)

3. Vienna (#u27681d36-fefd-5d35-8406-cca1a5bd1a3b)

4. Westbahnhof, Vienna (#uefa0fc64-3341-5620-9d93-e717bbfa4377)

5. Floridsdorf, Vienna (#u6b63bafd-0c8b-5df8-badc-382fdf2b1409)

6. Vienna—Tel Aviv (#ub409301d-845e-57e0-ae3a-96621c1bb7cc)

7. King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv (#u9a55bd65-0257-5565-8d3b-eaeef1e085dd)

8. Narkiss Street, Jerusalem (#ub35db698-1e35-5dcc-8f9b-e2a77cec8492)

9. King Saul Boulevard, Tel Aviv (#ua3aad5e8-41dc-56c9-873d-19efd8053f7e)

10. Vienna Woods, Austria (#u871762b9-3472-54d4-8092-4a14bb850a33)

11. Andalusia, Spain (#ude57f218-bdf8-5bcd-9690-2ce25fdd6d44)

12. Belgravia, London (#u55f760ba-3f9f-55cd-9b67-b0bedc5f5d80)

13. Eaton Square, London (#u3b2f41e9-9328-52d5-8575-e0bc897c71ab)

14. Eaton Square, London (#uac1c19ae-72e9-53ea-bf62-8ebfd91efbdc)

15. British Embassy, Washington (#u438ada0f-0637-5ca7-a483-015c4466e097)