Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon #22) (119)

We are blessed with family and friends who fill our lives with love and laughter at critical times during the writing year, especially Jeff Zucker, Phil Griffin, Andrew Lack, Noah Oppenheim, Esther Fein and David Remnick, Elsa Walsh and Bob Woodward, Susan St. James and Dick Ebersol, Jane and Burt Bacharach, Stacey and Henry Winkler, Pete Williams and David Gardner, Virginia Moseley and Tom Nides, Cindi and Mitchell Berger, Donna and Michael Bass, Nancy Dubuc and Michael Kizilbash, Susanna Aaron and Gary Ginsburg, Elena Nachmanoff, Ron Meyer, Andy Lassner, and Peggy Noonan. Also, a heartfelt thanks to the team at HarperCollins, especially Brian Murray, Jonathan Burnham, Doug Jones, Leah Wasielewski, Sarah Ried, Mark Ferguson, Leslie Cohen, Josh Marwell, Robin Bilardello, Milan Bozic, David Koral, Leah Carlson-Stanisic, Carolyn Robson, Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Frank Albanese, Josh Marwell, and Amy Baker.

Finally, my children, Lily and Nicholas, were a constant source of inspiration and support. Nicholas, now a graduate student at the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, was once again forced to reside under the same roof as his father as I struggled to complete this, the twenty-fifth novel of my career. And one wonders why neither he nor his twin sister, a successful business consultant, has chosen to pursue a career as a writer.





About the Author




DANIEL SILVA is the award-winning, #1 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, The Heist, The English Spy, The Black Widow, House of Spies, The Other Woman, The New Girl, The Order, and The Cellist. He is best known for his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon. Silva’s books are critically

acclaimed bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than thirty languages. He resides in Florida with

his wife, television journalist Jamie Gangel, and their twins, Lily and Nicholas. For more information, visit www.danielsilvabooks.com.

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