The Defector (Gabriel Allon, Band 9) - Softcover

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Daniel Silva is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, and the Gabriel Allon series, including 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, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, The English Spy, The Black Widow, and House of Spies. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world.

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ALSO BY DANIEL SILVA

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

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Silva, Daniel, date.
The defector / Daniel Silva.
p. cm.

ISBN: 9781101105023

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

PART ONE - Opening Moves

Chapter 1 - VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

Chapter 2 - LONDON: JANUARY

Chapter 3 - UMBRIA , ITALY

Chapter 4 - AMELIA , UMBRIA

Chapter 5 - AMELIA , UMBRIA

Chapter 6 - AMELIA , UMBRIA

Chapter 7 - VILLA DEI FIORI, UMBRIA

Chapter 8 - VILLA DEI FIORI, UMBRIA

Chapter 9 - VILLA DEI FIORI • LONDON

Chapter 10 - MAIDA VALE, LONDON

Chapter 11 - MAIDA VALE, LONDON

Chapter 12 - MAIDA VALE, LONDON

Chapter 13 - MAIDA VALE, LONDON

Chapter 14 - WEST LONDON

Chapter 15 - WESTMINSTER, LONDON

Chapter 16 - OXFORD

Chapter 17 - OXFORD

Chapter 18 - OXFORD

Chapter 19 - OXFORD

PART TWO - Anatoly

Chapter 20 - THE MARAIS, PARIS

Chapter 21 - MONTMARTRE, PARIS

Chapter 22 - MONTMARTRE, PARIS

Chapter 23 - LAKE COMO, ITALY

Chapter 24 - BELLAGIO, ITALY

Chapter 25 - LAKE COMO, ITALY

Chapter 26 - LAKE COMO, ITALY

Chapter 27 - LAKE COMO, ITALY

Chapter 28 - LAKE COMO, ITALY

Chapter 29 - LAKE COMO • LONDON

Chapter 30 - CIA HEADQUARTERS, VIRGINIA

Chapter 31 - GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Chapter 32 - UPSTATE NEW YORK

Chapter 33 - UPSTATE NEW YORK

Chapter 34 - UPSTATE NEW YORK

PART THREE - All Even

Chapter 35 - TIBERIAS, ISRAEL

Chapter 36 - BEN-GURION AIRPORT, ISRAEL

Chapter 37 - KING SAUL BOULEVARD, TEL AVIV

Chapter 38

Chapter 39 - KING SAUL BOULEVARD, TEL AVIV

Chapter 40 - CHELSEA , LONDON

Chapter 41 - CHELSEA , LONDON

Chapter 42 - CHELSEA , LONDON

Chapter 43 - KING SAUL BOULEVARD, TEL AVIV

Chapter 44 - HOTEL BRISTOL, GENEVA

Chapter 45 - HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE

Chapter 46 - HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE

Chapter 47 - HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE

Chapter 48 - HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE

Chapter 49

Chapter 50 - ZURICH

Chapter 51 - ZURICH

Chapter 52 - ZURICH

Chapter 53 - BARGEN, SWITZERLAND

PART FOUR - Resurrection Gate

Chapter 54 - NORTHERN GERMANY

Chapter 55 - MAYFAIR, LONDON

Chapter 56 - PARIS

Chapter 57 - SHANNON AIRPORT, IRELAND

Chapter 58 - MOSCOW

Chapter 59 - GROSVENOR SQUARE, LONDON

Chapter 60 - HOTEL METROPOL, MOSCOW

Chapter 61 - KONAKOVO, RUSSIA

Chapter 62 - GROSVENOR SQUARE, LONDON

Chapter 63 - VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

Chapter 64 - VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

Chapter 65 - GROSVENOR SQUARE, LONDON

Chapter 66 - GROSVENOR SQUARE, LONDON

Chapter 67 - LUBYANKA SQUARE, MOSCOW

Chapter 68 - VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

Chapter 69 - GROSVENOR SQUARE, LONDON

Chapter 70 - VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

Chapter 71 - VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

Chapter 72 - VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

PART FIVE - The Reckoning

Chapter 73 - JERUSALEM

Chapter 74 - JERUSALEM

Chapter 75 - TIBERIAS, ISRAEL

Chapter 76 - JERUSALEM

Chapter 77 - SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Acknowledgements

For Marilyn Ducksworth,
for many years of friendship,
support, and laughter.

And as always, for my wife, Jamie,
and my children, Nicholas and Lily.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe
that his vengeance need not be feared.

•

MACHIAVELLI

PART ONE

Opening Moves

1

VLADIMIRSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

PYOTR LUZHKOV was about to be killed, and for that he was grateful.

It was late October, but autumn was already a memory. It had been brief and unsightly, an old babushka hurriedly removing a threadbare frock. Now this: leaden skies, arctic cold, windblown snow. The opening shot of Russia’s winter without end.

Pyotr Luzhkov, shirtless, barefoot, hands bound behind his back, was scarcely aware of the cold. In fact, at that moment he would have been hard-pressed to recall his name. He believed he was being led by two men through a birch forest but could not be certain. It made sense they were in a forest. That was the place Russians liked to do their blood work. Kurapaty, Bykivnia, Katyn, Butovo . . . Always in the forests. Luzhkov was about to join a great Russian tradition. Luzhkov was about to be granted a death in the trees.

There was another Russian custom when it came to killing: the intentional infliction of pain. Pyotr Luzhkov had been forced to scale mountains of pain. They had broken his fingers and his thumbs. They had broken his arms and his ribs. They had broken his nose and his jaw. They had beaten him even when he was unconscious. They had beaten him because they had been told to. They had beaten him because they were Russians. The only time they had stopped was when they were drinking vodka. When the vodka was gone, they had beaten him even harder.

Now he was on the final leg of his journey, the long walk to a grave with no marker. Russians had a term for it: vyshaya mera, the highest form of...