# The Defector

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- Authors: [Daniel Silva](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-silva)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-276-3
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2010-07-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Gabriel Allon took down the world's most dangerous man. He made just one mistake. Leaving him alive . . . Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Umbria, when shocking news arrives from London. A Russian defector who saved his life has vanished without a trace. British Intelligence suspect he was a double agent, but Allon knows better. Soon he finds himself in a deadly duel of wits with a murderous Russian arms dealer as he bargains for his friend's life. Criss-crossing Europe at breakneck pace and culminating in a heart-stopping climax in the freezing birch forests of Russia, The Defector is a searing and bloody tale of courage and vengeance . . .