Also by Daniel Silva
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The Mark of the Assassin
The Marching Season
THE
KILL
ARTIST
Copyright © 2000 by Daniel Silva
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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The Kill Artistis a work of fiction. All characters and locales are products of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silva, Daniel.
The kill artist: a novel / Daniel Silva.
p. cm.
eISBN 0-375-50672-1
v.1
1. Middle East—Fiction. 2. Terrorism—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6069.I362 L37 2000
823’.914—dc21 00-055308
Random House website address: www.atrandom.com
For Jamie, who made this one possible, and everything else, for that matter
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a prince among them.”
Numbers 13:1–2
By way of deception, thou shalt do war.
Motto of the Mossad
Table of Contents
PROLOGUEVienna: January 1991
PART IAcquisition
ONEPort Navas, Cornwall: The Present
TWOParis
THREETiberias, Israel
FOURSamos, Greece
FIVETel Aviv
SIXZürich
SEVENSt. James’s, London
EIGHTPort Navas, Cornwall
NINEHolborn, London
TENSt. James’s, London
Part IIAssessment
ELEVEN
TWELVEBayswater, London
THIRTEENAmsterdam
FOURTEENBayswater, London
FIFTEENAmsterdam
SIXTEENValbonne, Provence
SEVENTEENTel Aviv
EIGHTEENValbonne, Provence
NINETEENAmsterdam
TWENTYParis
TWENTY-ONEMaida Vale, London
TWENTY-TWOMaida Vale, London
TWENTY-THREELeicester Square, London
TWENTY-FOURMaida Vale, London
TWENTY-FIVESt. James’s, London
TWENTY-SIXLisbon
TWENTY-SEVENBayswater, London
TWENTY-EIGHTLisbon
TWENTY-NINESt. James’s, London
THIRTYHyde Park, London
THIRTY-ONEParis
THIRTY-TWOSt. James’s, London
THIRTY-THREESt. James’s, London
THIRTY-FOURHounslow, England
Part IIIRestoration
THIRTY-FIVE
THIRTY-SIXParis
THIRTY-SEVENMontreal
THIRTY-EIGHTMontreal
THIRTY-NINEMontreal
FORTYSabrevois, Quebec
FORTY-ONEWashington, D.C.
FORTY-TWOBurlington, Vermont
FORTY-THREENew York City
FORTY-FOURNew York City
FORTY-FIVENew York City
FORTY-SIXJerusalem: March
EPILOGUEPort Navas, Cornwall
Author’s Note
The Kill Artistis a work of fiction and should be construed as nothing but. All characters, locales, and incidents portrayed in the novel are products of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. However, in order to add verisimilitude to the story and the characters, I have drawn from real episodes in the secret war between Israeli intelligence and the Palestinian guerrillas. For example, the 1988 assassination of PLO commando leader Abu Jihad happened much as it is portrayed, with minor modifications. Francesco Vecellio is a real Italian old master painter—indeed, he was the lesser-known brother of Titian—butThe Adoration of the Shepherds portrayed in the novel is fictitious. Sadly, the London art gallery portrayed inThe Kill Artist does not exist and neither does its owner.
THE
KILL
ARTIST
Daniel Silva, Kill Artist
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