Prince of Fire
Chapter One
Gabriel Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome
leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a
dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, lays bare
his history. Hastily recalled home to Israel, drawn once more into
the heart of a service he had once forsaken, Allon finds himself
stalking an elusive master terrorist across a landscape drenched
with generations of blood, the trail turning on itself until,
finally, he can no longer be certain who is stalking whom. And
when at last the showdown comes, it will not be Gabriel alone who
is threatened with destruction - for it is not his history alone
that has been laid bare.
THERE HAD BEEN WARNING SIGNS-THE SHABBAT bombing of a Jewish
community center in Buenos Aires that left eighty-seven people
dead; the bombing of an Istanbul synagogue, precisely one year
later, that killed another twenty-eight-but Rome would be his
coming-out party, and Rome would be the place where he left his
calling card.
Afterward, within the corridors and executive suites of Israel's
vaunted intelligence service, there was considerable and sometimes
belligerent debate over the time and place of the conspiracy's
genesis. Lev Ahroni, the ev ... read full excerpt from: Prince of Fire ebook
