The Secret Servant

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Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Silva
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silva, Daniel, date.
The secret servant / Daniel Silva.
p. cm.
Sequel to: The messenger.
ISBN: 1-4295-3754-X
1. Allon, Gabriel (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Intelligence officers—Fiction. 3. Terrorism—Prevention—Fiction. 4. Israelis—Netherlands—Amsterdam—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3619.I5443S43 2007b 2007017548
813'.6—dc22

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For Stacy and Henry Winkler, for their friendship,
support, and tireless work on behalf of children. And, as
always, for my wife, Jamie, and my children, Lily and
Nicholas.

On present demographic trends, by the end of the twenty-first century at the latest, Europe will be Muslim.

—B
ERNARD
L
EWIS

The threat is serious, is growing and will, I believe, be with us for a generation. It is a sustained campaign, not a series of isolated incidents. It aims to wear down our will to resist.

—D
AME
E
LIZA
M
ANNINGHAM
-B
ULLER,
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF
MI5

If you send a prisoner to Jordan, you get a better interrogation. If you send a prisoner, for instance, to Egypt, you will probably never see him again.

—R
OBERT
B
AER, AS QUOTED BY
S
TEPHEN
G
REY IN
Ghost Plane