Daniel Silva · 2007 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2007 novel. Sent to Amsterdam to quietly clear a dead agent's files, Gabriel Allon instead uncovers a jihadist cell about to strike across the Channel. The kidnapping of an American ambassador's daughter in London launches a frantic hunt against the clock - from Amsterdam through Germany to the northern tip of Denmark - to find her before her captors carry out their threat.

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   Amsterdam

   In Amsterdam to purge the archive of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst, Allon stumbles instead onto a live conspiracy festering in the city's Islamic underground - a plot poised to explode across the Channel in London.

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   London

   He reaches London seconds too late: Elizabeth Halton, daughter of the American ambassador, is snatched off the street by the cell, and by showing his face to save her Allon seals his own fate as well as hers.

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   Germany

   Drawn back into the service of American intelligence, Allon races across Germany on the kidnappers' trail as the captors move their hostage north, the clock ticking down toward the hour set for her execution.

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   Denmark

   The hunt ends at the wind-scoured northern edge of Denmark, in a last desperate bid to reach Elizabeth Halton before her captors carry out their threat and turn her murder into a global spectacle.