''The Marching Season'' is a 1999 spy fiction novel by Daniel Silva. It is the sequel to '' The Mark of the Assassin'' by the same author.

Plot summary

Former Agent Michael Osbourne is rerecruited by the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

when his father-in-law Douglas Cannon, the new ambassador to the Court of St. James, is sent to the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

to promote the peace process between

Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

s and

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s of

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, which has been jeopardized by three bloody attempts to derail them. Michael must once again face the elusive and lethal

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

-trained assassin October, with whom he has unfinished business.

International titles

Portuguese: ''A Marcha''. (''The March''). (2011).

References

1998 American novels American spy novels Novels by Daniel Silva Novels set in Northern Ireland Sequel novels {{1990s-spy-novel-stub