Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
CIA Agent Michael Osbourne stars in this suspenseful series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel Allon novels.

When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the east coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin. Only agent Michael Osbourne has seen the markings before -- on a woman he once loved.

Now, it's personal for Osbourne. Consumed by his dark obsession with the assassin, he's willing to risk his family, his career, and his life -- to settle a score…

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin. Signet, ISBN: 0451209311 (July, 2007), 515 p., $9.99.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
When an airliner is blown out of the sky off the east coast, a body with three bullets to the face is discovered near the crash site: the calling card of an assassin. Only agent Michael Osbourne has seen the markings before -- on a woman he once loved. Consumed by his dark obsession with the assassin, he's willing to risk everything to settle the score...

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin. Signet, ISBN: 0451209311 (September, 2003), 515 p., $9.99.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
When a terrorist bomb blows Flight 002 out of the sky off the east coast, there is only one chilling clue. A body found near the crash site bears the deadly calling card of an elusive, lethal assassin -- three bullets to the face. Michael Osbourne of the CIA knows the markings. Personally.

Propelled by an obsession that threatens to consume his career, his family, his life, Osbourne is now hot on the assassin's trail. But in a world of shadows and lies, intrigue and cover-up, the man with a mission puts himself and his loved ones in the sights of the most ruthless, diabolical assassin on earth...

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin. Fawcett, ISBN: 0449225313 (March, 1999), 515 p., $6.99.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
A gripping thriller by the author of the Unlikely Spy.
A secret world organisation of wealthy Capitalists hires a shadowy former KGB assassin with a trademark method of killing - 3 gunshots in the face of his victim. For the assassin, a hit is simply another million dollars in the bank. But to the President of the US, it symbolises revenge.

To the hero of THE UNLIKELY SPY, this trademark simply makes it easier to track the killer across three continents, as the death count rises steadily.

This is a battle between an assassin, and the only man who knows his identity.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin. Orion, ISBN: 0752826107 (July, 1999), 437 p., £5.99.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
A secret world organisation of wealthy Capitalists hires a shadowy former KGB assassin with a trademark method of killing - 3 gunshots in the face of his victim. For the assassin, a hit is simply another million dollars in the bank. But to the President of the US, it symbolises revenge.

To the hero of THE UNLIKELY SPY, this trademark simply makes it easier to track the killer across three continents, as the death count rises steadily.

This is a battle between an assassin, and the only man who knows his identity.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN: 0297817892 (June, 1998), 339 p., £16.99.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
When Michael Osbourne of the CIA is called in to investigate the terrorist bombing of an airliner off the coast of Long Island, there is one relevant clue that drives him: a body found in the water near the crash site with three bullet holes in its face. Osbourne recognizes the deadly markings as the work of a world-class assassin, a man whose very existence has never been proven because the only people ever to have seen him became his victims. And among those victims was a young woman Osbourne loved years before.

As Osbourne gets closer and closer to the assassin's trail, his personal obsessions threaten to consume not only the investigation, but his marriage and family life as well. When the frightening identity of the assassin's employers becomes clear, Osbourne puts himself and his loved ones in the sights of the most fearsome man on earth.

With breathtaking plot twists, complex characters, and a villain who is among the most ruthless, diabolical creations in modern thriller fiction, The Mark of the Assassin is a razor-sharp suspense masterpiece from one of the most exciting new authors at work today.

Daniel Silva: The Mark of the Assassin. A Novel. Villard Books, ISBN: 0679455639 (April, 1998), 465 p., $25.00.