Kill Artist

  Also by Daniel Silva

  The Unlikely Spy

  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.

  RANDOMHOUSEand colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  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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