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by Daniel Silva (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Orion, London; paperback / softback edition (1 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752837028
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752837024
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,086 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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During the first uncertain years of the Northern Ireland peace process three simultaneous terrorist attacks in Belfast, Dublin and London shatter the hope that the bloodshed is finally over. The perpetrators are a new terror group called the Ulster Freedom Brigade. And they have one goal: to destroy the peace process. Michael Osbourne, hero of THE MARK OF THE ASSASSIN, has quit the CIA, bitter and disillusioned. But when the President chooses his father-in-law to be the next American ambassador to Britain, Osbourne is drawn into battle with some of the most ruthless and violent men on earth ...


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Daniel Silva is ex-CNN TV executive, whose first book The Unlikely Spy was sold in 14 countries. He is married with twins.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad international crime thriller, 29 Aug 2001
This book reads as though the author can see the Hollywood blockbuster following shortly behind. It's the tale of a renegade Northern Irish Loyalist terrorist group aiming to bring down the "Peace Process", and an American diplomat-cum-spy and his family who become embroiled in the conflict. A little of Patriot Games, a little of Harry's Game, a little of Day of the Jackal, mix it all together and you get The Marching Season. Worth reading if you like all of the above, but don't expect it to be a best seller.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The marching season, 17 Jan 2004
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This review is from: The Marching Season (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed this book. Its a great blend of fact and fiction.It blends the murky world of the Irish troubles with the even murkier world of the CIA. It goes at a fast pace which made it difficult to put it down.Definately a good read!
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4.0 out of 5 stars "Memories are long in Ulster, and neither side has been willing to declare that the civil war is truly over.", 17 Nov 2007
By Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Marching Season (Hardcover)
Against the backdrop of the Good Friday Accords of 1998, this 1999 thriller explores several groups which have reason to want the peace process to fail so that they can accomplish their own agendas. Partisans of the Republic and partisans of the Union have come to an agreement regarding peace and power-sharing, but the new Ulster Freedom Brigade believes that all sides have sold out, and they are willing to murder Catholics and Protestants alike as they continue the sectarian violence. At the same time an international group, the secret Society for International Development and Cooperation, consisting of powerful business and security officials from around the world, decides to use the uncertainties in Ulster to further their own business interests.

Michael Osbourne, formerly with the CIA, is lured out of retirement to promote the peace process and to guard his father-in-law, Douglas Cannon, who has just been appointed US ambassador to the Court of St. James. Osbourne has experienced personal danger, having escaped an assassination attempt the previous year, and he knows his way around Ireland. The Society, however, contacts the man who previously tried to kill him, a Russian known only as October, and hires him to stop Osbourne and the Ambassador and end the peace process.

Though the mystery associated with Ulster is exciting and filled with authentic detail, including some of the real characters associated with the Accords, the novel wanders into other, unrelated areas. The Society for International Development and Cooperation includes powerful and amoral renegades in high positions in the US, Israel, the UK, and other countries, and as the action shifts to Egypt, France, Greece, and other countries, the subplots shift the focus away from Ireland and into an international nether-world.

The staccato sentence structure, while effective for conveying action, gets wearisome here because there is so much action, not all of it related to Ireland, and Silva's descriptive abilities, so obvious in some of his other novels, are subordinated here to the action. One gets some insight into October and how he became the assassin he is, but Osbourne, while clever, remains somewhat indistinct from other thriller "heroes." This Silva novel lacks the unity and intense characterization one associates with the Gabriel Allon series, and Ari Shamron, Allon's mentorm is a sinister SIDC character here. Still, the novel is fun to read, a fast-paced thriller which does give some insights into the complexities of Ulster and the difficulties of the peace process. Mary Whipple
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