Quelques années après les événements de La mémoire dans la peau, David Webb est devenu professeur d'études asiatiques à Georgetown, Kentucky. Mais, un jour, il devient la cible d'un assassin aussi habile que lui et la CIA lui met sur le dos le meurtre de deux de ses collègues. Webb, pour sauver sa peau, doit à nouveau endosser l'identité de Jason Bourne et retrouver sa détermination de tueur.
Ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. Meanwhile, a spate of serial killings begins to terrorise the neighbourhood. Are the Battle family somehow involved?
The chief of Israeli Intelligence recalls two former agents in order to eliminate a top Palestinian terrorist. One agent is now an art restorer, the other a fashion model. Ten years before, on a mission to destroy the Arab Black September group, they were briefly lovers. Now their pasts and their enemies come back to haunt them, as the terrorist murders ambassadors in Paris and Holland. Will the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks be his next target? And what motivates the terrorist? Is it politics, or is it possibly personal? Set mainly in London, but with forays into Paris, Amsterdam, the Middle East and north America, this thriller has all Daniel Silva's hallmarks of strong characters, unusual backgrounds and a page-turning narrative.