At an exclusive school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the girl who arrives and leaves each day in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. When she is kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a secret war with an old enemy that will determine the future of the Middle East - and perhaps the world. Twists, turns, and nonstop action!