Daniel Silva - Moscow Rules (Gabriel Allon)

MOSCOWRULES

By

DANIELSILVA

Tableof Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Epigraph

PARTONE - THE SUMMONS

1 -COURCHEVEL, FRANCE

2 -UMBRIA, ITALY

3 -ASSISI, ITALY

4 -ASSISI, ITALY

5 -LLADEIFIORI, UMBRIA

6 - ROME

7 - ROME

8 - VATICAN CITY

9 - VATICAN CITY

10 - BEN-GURIONAIRPORT, ISRAEL

11 - JERUSALEM

12 - ST. PETERSBURG

13 - MOSCOW

14 - NOVODEVICHYCEMETERY

15 - MOSCOW

16 - MOSCOW

17 - MOSCOW

18 - FSB HEADQUARTERS,MOSCOW

19 - FSB HEADQUARTERS,MOSCOW

PARTTWO - THE RECRUITMENT

20 -BEN-GURION AIRPORT, ISRAEL

21 -JERUSALEM

22 -JERUSALEM

23 - GEORGETOWN

24 - GEORGETOWN

25 - DUMBARTON OAKS,GEORGETOWN

26 - DUMBARTON OAKS,GEORGETON

27 - LONDON

28 - LONDON

29 - ST. JAMES,LONDON

30 - CHELSEA, LONDON

31 - GLOUCESTERSHIRE,ENGLAND

32 - GLOUCESTERSHIRE,ENGLAND

33 - THAMES HOUSE,LONDON

34 -HAVERMORE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

35 -LONDON

36 -SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

37 -SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

38 -SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

39 -GASSIN, FRANCE

40 -SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

41 -SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

42 -SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

43 - THEMASSIF DES MAURES, FRANCE

44 - THEMASSIF DES MAURES, FRANCE

45 - THEMASSIF DES MAURES, FRANCE

46 - THEMASSIF DES MAURES, FRANCE

47 -SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE

PARTTHREE - THE DEFECTION

48 - PARIS

49 - PARIS

50 - MOSCOW

51 - GENEVA

52 - VILLA SOLEIL,FRANCE

53 - NICE, FRANCE

54 - MOSCOW

55 - MOSCOW

56 - SAINT-TROPEZ,MOSCOW

57 - MOSCOW

58 - MOSCOW

59 - GROSVENOR SQUARE,LONDON

60 - MOSCOW

61 - SHEREMET YEVO 2AIRPORT, MOSCOW

62 - MOSCOW

63 - LUBYANKA SQUARE,MOSCOW

64 - KALUZHSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

65 - KALUZHSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

66 - KALUZHSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

67 - KALUZHSKAYA OBLAST, RUSSIA

68 - MOSCOW

69 - BOLOTNAYA SQUARE,MOSCOW

70 - MOSCOW

PARTFOUR - THE HARVEST

71 - VILLADEIFIORI,UMBRIA

72 - VILLADEIFIORI,UMBRIA

73 - VILLADEIFIORI,UMBRIA

About the Author

Acknowledgements

ALSOBY DANIEL SILVA

TheSecret Servant
The Messenger
Prince of Fire
A Death in Vienna
The Confessor
TheEnglish Assassin
The Kill Artist
The MarchingSeason
The Mark of the Assassin
The UnlikelySpy

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Moscow rules / Daniel Silva.
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and my children, Lily andNicholas.

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THEMOSCOW RULES

PARTONE

THESUMMONS

COURCHEVEL,FRANCE

The invasion began, asit always did, in the last days of December. They came by armoredcaravan up the winding road from the floor of the Rhne Valleyor descended onto the treacherous mountaintop airstrip by helicopterand private plane. Billionaires and bankers, oil tycoons and metalmagnates, supermodels and spoiled children: the moneyed elite of aRussia resurgent. They streamed into the suites of the Cheval Blancand the Byblos and commandeered the big private chalets along the ruede Bellecte. They booked Les Caves nightclub for privateall-night parties and looted the glittering shops of the Croissette.They snatched up all the best ski instructors and emptied thewineshops of their best champagne and cognac. By the morning of thetwenty-eighth there was not a hair appointment to be had anywhere intown, and Le Chalet de Pierres, the famous slope-side restaurantrenowned for its fire-roasted beef, had stopped taking reservationsfor dinner until mid-January. By New Years Eve, the conquestwas complete. Courchevel, the exclusive ski resort high in the FrenchAlps, was once more a village under Russian occupation.

Only the HtelGrand Courchevel managed to survive the onslaught from the East.Hardly surprising, devotees might have said, for, at the Grand,Russians, like those with children, were quietly encouraged to findaccommodations elsewhere. Her rooms were thirty in number, modest insize, and discreet in appointment. One did not come to the Grand forgold fixtures and suites the size of football pitches. One came for ataste of Europe as it once was. One came to linger over a Campari inthe lounge bar or to dawdle over coffee and Le Monde in thebreakfast room. Gentlemen wore jackets to dinner and waited untilafter breakfast before changing into their ski attire. Conversationwas conducted in a confessional murmur and with excessive courtesy.The Internet had not yet arrived at the Grand and the phones weremoody. Her guests did not seem to mind; they were as genteel as theGrand herself and trended toward late middle age. A wit from one ofthe flashier hotels in the Jardin Alpin once described the Grandsclientele as the elderly and their parents.

The lobby was small,tidy, and heated by a well-tended wood fire. To the right, near theentrance of the dining room, was Reception, a cramped alcove withbrass hooks for the room keys and pigeonholes for mail and messages.Adjacent to Reception, near the Grands single wheezing lift,stood the concierge desk. Early in the afternoon of the second ofJanuary, it was occupied by Philippe, a neatly built former Frenchparatrooper who wore the crossed golden keys of the InternationalConcierge Institute on his spotless lapel and dreamed of leaving thehotel business behind for good and settling permanently on hisfamilys truffle farm in Prigord. His thoughtful darkgaze was lowered toward a list of pending arrivals and departures. Itcontained a single entry: