The Order

#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller

From

Daniel Silva, the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling

author, comes a riveting new thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel

Allon.

It was nearly one a.m. by the time

he crawled into bed. Chiara was reading a novel, oblivious to the television,

which was muted. On the screen was a live shot of St. Peter’s Basilica. Gabriel

raised the volume and learned that an old friend had died …

Gabriel

Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife

and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is

summoned to Rome by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi

Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a

heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was

murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the papal apartments the

night of the pope’s death is missing. So, too, is the letter the Holy Father

was writing during the final hours of his life. A letter that was addressed to

Gabriel.

While researching in the Vatican

Secret Archives, I came upon a most remarkable book …

The

book is a long-suppressed gospel that calls into question the accuracy of the New

Testament’s depiction of one of the most portentous events in human history.

For that reason alone, the Order of St. Helena will stop at nothing to keep it

out of Gabriel’s hands. A shadowy Catholic society with ties to the European

far right, the Order is plotting to seize control of the papacy. And it is only

the beginning.

As the

cardinals gather in Rome for the start of the conclave, Gabriel sets out on a

desperate search for proof of the Order’s conspiracy, and for a long-lost

gospel with the power to put an end to two thousand years of murderous hatred.

His quest will take him from the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, to a monastery in

Assisi, to the hidden depths of the Secret Archives, and finally to the Sistine

Chapel, where he will witness an event no outsider has ever before seen—the

sacred passing of the Keys of St. Peter to a newly elected pope.

Swiftly

paced and elegantly rendered, The Order will hold readers spellbound, from its

opening passages to its breathtaking final twist of plot. It is a novel of

friendship and faith in a perilous and uncertain world. And it is still more

proof that Daniel Silva is his generation’s finest writer of suspense and

international intrigue.