The English Spy (41 page)
I
AM INDEBTED TO MY WIFE
, Jamie Gangel, who listened patiently while I worked through the twists and turns of
The English Spy
and expertly trimmed one hundred pages from the pile of paper I euphemistically referred to as my first draft. Without her constant support and remarkable attention to detail, my manuscript could not have been finished before its deadline. My debt to her is immeasurable, as is my love. Also, my children, Lily and Nicholas, were a constant source of inspiration throughout the writing year. I am in awe of their accomplishments.
Louis Toscano, my dear friend and longtime editor, made countless improvements to the novel, large and small. My eagle-eyed personal copy editor, Kathy Crosby, made certain the text was free of typographical and grammatical errors. Any mistakes that slipped through their formidable gauntlet are mine, not theirs.
It goes without saying that this book could not have been published without the support of my team at HarperCollins, but I shall say it anyway, for they are the best in the business. A special thanks to Jonathan Burnham, Brian Murray, Michael Morrison, Jennifer Barth, Josh Marwell, Tina Andreadis, Leslie Cohen, Leah Wasielewski, Robin Bilardello, Mark Ferguson, Kathy Schneider, Brenda Segel, Carolyn Bodkin, Doug Jones, Katie Ostrowka, Erin Wicks, Shawn Nicholls, Amy Baker, Mary Sasso, David Koral, and Leah Carlson-Stanisic. A heartfelt thanks as well to my legal team, Michael Gendler and Linda Rappaport, for their support and wise counsel.
I consulted hundreds of books, newspaper and magazine articles, and Web sites while preparing this manuscript, far too many to name here. I would be remiss, however, if I did not mention the extraordinary scholarship and reporting of Martin Dillon, Peter Taylor, Ken Connor, Mark Urban, John Mooney and Michael O’Toole, and Toby Harnden, author of the seminal study of the South Armagh Brigade.
Finally, this novel, like the previous fourteen books in the Gabriel Allon series, could not have been written without the assistance of David Bull. Unlike the fictitious Gabriel Allon, David truly is one of the finest art restorers in the world, and I am lucky to have him as a friend. If men such as David ran the world, my hero would live a very quiet life indeed. Perhaps he would have had a chance to restore that Caravaggio. And, doubtless, he would have asked David for advice before ever laying a finger on it.
DANIEL SILVA
IS THE AWARD-WINNING
, number one
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Unlikely Spy
,
The Mark of the Assassin
,
The Marching Season
,
The Kill Artist
,
The English Assassin
,
The Confessor
,
A Death in Vienna
,
Prince of Fire
,
The Messenger
,
The Secret Servant
,
Moscow Rules
,
The Defector
,
The Rembrandt Affair
,
Portrait of a Spy
,
The Fallen Angel
,
The English Girl
, and
The Heist
. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are best sellers around the world. He serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and lives in Florida with his wife, Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.
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The Messenger
Prince of Fire
A Death in Vienna
The Confessor
The English Assassin
The Kill Artist
The Marching Season
The Mark of the Assassin
The Unlikely Spy
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
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Map designed by Nick Springer
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The English Spy
is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents portrayed in the story are the product of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.
THE ENGLISH SPY
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