For the Northern Irish 'marching season', see Parades in Northern Ireland

Parades in Northern Ireland

Parades are an important part of Northern Irish culture. Although the majority of parades are held ostensibly by Protestant, unionist or Ulster loyalist groups, nationalist, republican and non-political groups also parade. Parading is often considered to be an assertion of a group's control over a...

The Marching Season is a 1998 spy fiction

Spy fiction

Spy fiction, literature concerning the forms of espionage, was a sub-genre derived from the novel during the nineteenth century, which then evolved into a discrete genre before the First World War , when governments established modern intelligence agencies in the early twentieth century...

 novel by Daniel Silva. It is the sequel to The Mark of the Assassin

The Mark of the Assassin

The Mark of the Assassin is a 1998 spy fiction novel by Daniel Silva.Plot summary: Codewords for the book: Osbourne, Delaroche, October, Vogel, Elizabeth, Michael, Kids, President, Society, Assassinations, Sarah Randolph....

by the same author.

Plot summary

Former Agent Michael Osbourne is rerecruited by the CIA when his father-in-law Douglas Cannon, the new ambassador to the Court of St. James, is sent to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 to promote peace-process between Protestants and Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

s of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

, which has been jeopardied after three bloody attempts. Michael will have to face once again the elusive and lethal killer he has many pending matters with...