The Intelligencer, Leslie Silbert
The Intelligencer, Leslie Silbert
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

The Intelligencer

Author: Leslie Silbert

Narrator: Jan Maxwell, Alfred Molina

Abridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2004


Synopsis

On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme.
In present-day New York, grad student turned private eye Kate Morgan is called in on an urgent matter. One of her firm's top clients, a London-based financier, has chanced upon a mysterious manuscript that had been buried for centuries -- one that someone is desperate to steal. What secret lurks in those yellowed ciphered pages? And how, so many years later, could it drive someone to kill?
As Kate sets off for England, she received a second assignment. An enigmatic art dealer has made an eleven million-dollar purchase from an Iranian intelligence officer. Is it a black-market antiquities deal, or something far more sinister? Like Marlowe, Kate moonlights as a spy -- her P.I firm doubles as an off-the-books U.S. intelligence unit -- and she is soon caught like a pawn in a deadly international game. As The Intelligencer's interlocking narratives race toward a stunning collision, and Kate closes in on the truth behind Marlowe's sudden death, it becomes clear that she may have sealed a similar fate for herself.

About Leslie Silbert

Leslie Silbert graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's and master's degree in the History of Science and studied Renaissance literature at Oxford. She works as a private investigator in New York City under the guidance of a former CIA officer and is currently writing her second Kate Morgan novel. For more information, please visit www.lesliesilbert.com.

About Alfred Molina

Alfred Molina's films include Spiderman II, Frida, Magnolia, Chocolat, Boogie Nights, The Perez Family, Maverick, Enchanted April, Not Without My Daughter, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Prick Up Your Ears. He has appeared extensively on British and American television, including the TV series Bram & Alice and Ladies' Man. Mr. Molina received a Tony Award nomination, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance in Art on Broadway. He also performed on Broadway in Molly Sweeney and in Speed the Plow for the National Theatre in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on October 21, 2017

I was about 34 pages in here when I knew I was doomed. I kept on going, for a bit but it seemed so slow and draggy to me. I wanted to like this one, it's a good idea, and it starts pretty well. The old manuscript tied in to the past.... The enigmatic Marlowe, and his death, and what's the middle eas......more

Goodreads review by Wayland on December 31, 2017

This is a book split in two time frames. The modern day, in which Kate Morgan is an operative for a company that blurs the line between private investigation and intelligence service, and the 1593, with the events that lead up to the death of Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, renown playwright and sometime......more

Goodreads review by John on May 29, 2009

There's a 16th-century manuscript/compilation in this novel called The Anatomy of Secrets, and really it's the maguffin that holds the whole plot together. My bet is that Silbert originally called her novel The Anatomy of Secrets, but then some bright spark changed the title. Speculation, of course.......more

Goodreads review by Djordje on March 12, 2018

Zanimljivo štivo. Dobar špijunski triler. Malo me nervira taj konstantan prelazak iz prošlosti u sadašnjost, jer se taman zahuhtam sa Kejt i krene neka akcija, pa me preseku sa prošlošću. Bilo je par nekih obrta, koje nisam očekivao, na koje sam reagovao sa: Opa! Zanimljiva knjižica.......more

Goodreads review by Swissmiss on July 11, 2010

I almost gave this one star, but then I thought, it wasn't an unintelligent book, even if I didn't really like it. The main downsides for me were the jumping back and forth between time lines, the unnecessary and obviously gratuitous details about life in the 16th century (they didn't know what a fo......more