Daniel,Silva

Michael Osbourne, now an embittered ex-CIA officer, is pulled into the troubled peace and politics of Northern Ireland after the treaty between Protestants and Catholics has supposedly taken effect.Osbourne's father-in-law, former Senator Douglas Cannon, has been appointed American ambassador to Britain, and he becomes the target of the ruthless assassin Jean-Paul Delaroche, who almost killed Osbourne and his wife, Elizabeth, in the climax of Silva's last novel. Here, the two men face off in a decisive battle, with the fate of Northern Ireland hanging in the balance.

Daniel Silva's first two novels,??The Unlikely Spy and??The Mark of the Assassin , were both instant New York Times bestsellers and were translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, NBC Today show correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas. He is currently at work on a new novel.