Q: Did I hear you correctly? A man who’s been described as one of the top American spy novelists of all time has written a love story?Ī: It’s true.
And in The Defector, Ivan Kharkov is out for revenge. There’s a wonderful quotation from Machiavelli that I use as the epigram for the novel: “If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” Gabriel would have been wise to heed that advice. But even the great Gabriel Allon makes mistakes once in a while, and in the case of Ivan, his mistake was leaving him alive. Just to bring readers up to date, in the last installment of the series, Gabriel brought down one of the world’s most dangerous men: the ruthless Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. As you might expect, a writer forms an attachment to all his books-in a way, they’re a bit like children-but I’m especially excited about The Defector because it’s not only a thriller but a love story. Tell us a little about The Defector.Ī: The Defector is my twelfth novel and the ninth to feature my hero, the enigmatic art restorer and Israeli assassin Gabriel Allon. Now you’ve written the much-anticipated sequel. Q: In 2008, you released #1 New York Times bestseller Moscow Rules, a book everyone was talking about. It will take Gabriel from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia.įaced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible.A Conversation with Daniel Silva, Author of THE DEFECTOR In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world’s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov.
Promise me I won’t end up in an unmarked grave
But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. He also knows he made a promise.ĭo you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel’s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace.īritish intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican.īut his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London.
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