The Marching Season: A Novel - Rilegato

Silva, Daniel

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ISBN 10: 0375500898 ISBN 13: 9780375500893

Casa editrice: Random House, 1999

Riassunto

Daniel Silva burst onto the scene in 1996 with one of the most auspicious thriller debuts in years-- The Unlikely Spy , a New York Times and international bestseller. The following year he solidified his reputation as one of the foremost thriller writers of his generation with another instant New York Times bestseller,  The Mark of the Assassin .
        
With The Marching Season, Silva delivers his most entertaining novel yet--an electrifying tale of terror, revenge, and greed, straight out of tomorrow's headlines. It is the first uncertain year of the peace process in Northern Ireland, a land ravaged by centuries of religious and political conflict. On a single night, a renegade group of Protestant extremists tries to turn back the hands of time with three savage acts of terrorism.                

Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne, the hero of The Mark of the Assassin, is lured back to the Agency after his father-in-law, former U.S. Senator Douglas Cannon, is nominated to be the new American ambassador to London. When Michael discovers that the Protestant gunmen have marked Cannon for execution, he sets in motion a deadly contest of wits and deception that will determine whether the peace in Northern Ireland will survive and whether his father-in-law lives or dies.
        
What Michael Osbourne does not realize is that he is a pawn in a much larger game. Once again, his destiny is controlled by the Society, a secret order that uses its power and influence to foster global unrest for financial gain. And once again, he is pitted against his personal bête noire, Jean-Paul Delaroche, the world's most dangerous assassin, who slipped through Michael's fingers at the climax of  The Mark of the Assassin .
        
Filled with breathtaking plot twists, The Marching Season spirals to a riveting conclusion. It is a novel of power and intrigue, where appearance and reality are enemies and trust is betrayed as often as it is honored.

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Praise for The Mark of the Assassin

"One of the best-drawn fictional assassins since The Day of the Jackal."  
-- San Francisco Examiner

"A must-read for conspiracy buffs."  
-- Entertainment Weekly

"A writer who is bringing new life to the international thriller."  
-- Newsday

"Compulsively enjoyable."  
-- San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for  The Unlikely Spy

"Reminiscent of John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold."  
--Richard Bernstein,  The New York Times

"A classic World War II espionage tale."
-- The Washington Post

"A tale of suspense that spirals its way to an evocative climax."
-- The Times  (London)

"A literate thriller, well-researched and fast-moving."
-- San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375500898
• ISBN 13: 9780375500893
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida