The Elias Enigma, Simon Gervais
The Elias Enigma, Simon Gervais
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The Elias Enigma

Author: Simon Gervais

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2025


Synopsis

The bestselling author of The Elias Network returns with a globe-trotting thriller about a retired assassin called back into action in order to save everything he holds dear.Caspian Anderson, once a black-ops assassin known as Elias, now works for the Defense Clandestine Service. But unfinished business dies hard. Glimpsing a familiar face while tying up loose ends overseas, he swears it’s his lover, Liesel Bergmann—a German spy and erstwhile collaborator. But back stateside, he can’t ask her without giving himself away.This mystery hangs between them as they kick off a new mission together: to unravel a global criminal conspiracy, one that implicates Caspian’s own parents. Dispatched to France, they must track down rogue start-up founder Frank LaBelle before his cutting-edge defense tech falls into the wrong hands. But when Caspian’s team is compromised by friends and foes, he’s left with no one to trust but himself. And to complete the mission—and save the world—he resurrects the deadly Elias.Action packed yet intricately plotted, Simon Gervais’s The Elias Enigma deftly probes the mercurial nature of truth among spies and the lies we tell for love.

About Simon Gervais

Simon Gervais was born in Montréal, Québec. He joined the Canadian military as an infantry officer and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1997. In 2001, he was recruited by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and became a federal agent. His first posting was in Toronto, where he served as a drug investigator. During this time, he worked on many international drug-related cases in close collaboration with his American colleagues from the Drug Enforcement Administration. His career switched gears in 2004, and he was placed with a federal antiterrorism unit based in the Ottawa region. During the following years, he was deployed in several European and Middle Eastern countries. In 2009, he became a close protection specialist tasked with guarding foreign heads of state visiting Canada. He served on the protection details of Queen Elizabeth II, US president Barack Obama, and Chinese president Hu Jintao, among others. Gervais lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.


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“Graham Halstead's steady, confident narration depicts Caspian's growing concern that his parents are entangled in a potentially deadly web involving the DEA and an assortment of international spies. One of these spies is Caspian's fiancée, Liesel, who is voiced perfectly by Halstead.… Halsted increases his pace and adds tension when Caspian must rely on physical violence to overcome threats to the successful completion of his mission.” —AudioFile Magazine“Gervais deftly shuffles his large cast of characters like pieces on a chessboard, with well-timed ‘surprises’ and many chapters ending in cliffhangers. An adrenaline-fueled spy romp…” —Kirkus Reviews“With the publication of his action packed yet intricately plotted thriller of a novel, The Elias Enigma, author Simon Gervais again demonstrates originality and a genuine flair for the kind of narrative driven storytelling style that fully engages the reader’s rapt attention from start to finish.” —Midwest Book Review