Haunted by his failure to stop a suicide bomber in london, gabriel allon is summoned to washington and drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror.at the center of the threat is an american-born cleric in yemen who was once a paid cia asset.gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death - from the inside - a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional.to succeed, gabriel must reach into his violent past.a woman waits there, a reclusive heiress and art collector who can traverse the murky divide between islam and the west.