Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy, until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The reason: Harry Potter is a wizard.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, on the run, receive help from unexpected quarters and old friends as they set out to search and destroy the hidden pieces of the enemy wizard's soul, and discover the truth about Harry's mentor.

During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

A supposed Jewish refugee dockworker with a wife and son in post-World War II Palestine is a Nazi former guard, and he makes contact with sympathetic local Templars in Haifa's German Colony (Moshavah ha-Germanit).

The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest...