Although this book follows a time tested Silva formula, it's still exciting. Nazis, betrayal, spies, art work, Iranian nukes and the ever present "office" make it so. The author admits that the Swiss connection is concocted, even though they did help in dissolution of the third reich. The convers...
For someone who has just started reading thrillers,this book might seem totally exciting. But alas.! I'm not one of them. On the book cover there is a compliment by Daily mail,saying 'a cross between Jason Bourne and James Bond'. But Gabriel Allon didn't deserve such a high praise. He isn't much ...
'The Defector' is the sequel of 'Moscow Rules', with the spy Grigori 're-defecting' back to Russia. Though Gabriel saved Elena and her two children from the tyrant Ivan Kharkov in the last drama, they are targeted again in 'The Defector'. It is amazing that, though Gabriel get the 'hype' in rol...
I feel torn about this book. It was an enjoyable read, but it felt a bit preachy and like it took itself too seriously. I also felt like it tried to oversimplify complicated issues. The main character, spy and assassin Gabriel Allon is strong but damaged, intelligent, intuitive, courageous, but m...
Note: I listened to this book as an audiobook and got to about page 220 (about 2/3 through the book). These were my thoughts:There are many characters in The Mark of the Assasin that I don't even know where to start... some spoilers below.A stinger missile is launched off a yacht in Boston, hitt...
Such an entertaining and addicting book based on a true story. The world of spies during WWII is an aspect of the war that I had never really heard anything about. It was fascinating to learn about the intellectual confrontation between the strategists among the Americans/British and the German...
This is my 3rd Allon book and I must say I am addicted to Silva's creation of Allon. I know that Silva's writing projects that the Israeli spy Allon and Israeli intelligence is almost and always the best in the world, which might feel bit stereotyped in all his novel, but then I don't read Allon...
"Se estivermos a vigiar um alvo a partir de um café, não devemos fazer coisas que nos façam parecer estar a vigiar um alvo a partir do café, tais como ficarmos sentados sozinhos durante horas, a fingir estarmos a ler um jornal."Daniel Silva introduziu-me, da forma mais extraordinária, o mundo da ...
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his comp...
I DON'T HIDE MY REVIEWS, BUT THEY DO CONTAIN SPOILERS.This is in Silva's line of Michael Osbourne books. Osbourne is a former CIA agent who has rejoined the service. He's done so because his father-in-law, a retired U.S. senator, has been named to an ambassador post to Ireland, and Osbourne sense...
I will admit that I’d not come across Daniel Silva’s books before, despite having ‘aquired’ a few along the way. I don’t know what his reputation is, if I’m supposed not to like his stuff, or if I’m supposed to think he’s the best in his field.So…I will admit that this gripped me from the off, on...
3.5 starsMulti-lingual Israeli spy/art restorer Gabriel Allon is restoring a painting in Venice when a bomb destroys the 'Wartime Claims and Inquiries Office' in Vienna, Austria. Gabriel's friend Eli Lavon is badly wounded and Eli's staff is killed. When Gabriel travels to Vienna to investigate h...
Não deverás ser apanhado! Deverás derramar sangue inocente, se necessário!"Tal como no "O Artista do Morte" também a acção de o "O Assassino Inglês" se desenrola no meio da Arte. O que não me surpreende, afinal Gabriel Allon é mais do que um espião, é um restaurador que não vive sem o seu oficio....
When last we encountered Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, he had just prevailed in his blood-soaked duel with Saudi terrorist financier Zizi al-Bakari. Now Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine as...
Gabriel used the interval to remove the barricade of furniture from the entrance hall. Then he placed his ear against the door and listened to the tack-hammer clatter of her heels along the uncarpeted hall. It was a good door, solid and thick, enough to slow a bullet but not to stop one. The woma...
It bore Gabriel and Keller across the width of southern England at 110 knots, just shy of its top speed. They reached Plymouth at six, and a few minutes later Gabriel spotted the lighthouse at Lizard Point. The pilot wanted to set down at Culdrose, but Gabriel prevailed upon him to go straight to...
It had a tidy interior courtyard and an elegant staircase covered by a well-worn runner. The flat was on the third floor; from the window of the comfortably furnished sitting room, it might have been possible to see the white dome of Sacré-Coeur had Shamron not been blocking the view. Hearing the...
As was customary, its British pilot immediately informed the passengers and crew of this development so that any females on board could begin exchanging their Western clothing for appropriate Islamic dress.Ten of the women on board the plane did so at once. The eleventh, Nadia al-Bakari, remained...
10 Downing Street with the last of the required ministerial authorizations tucked safely inside his secure briefcase. The speed with which the agreement was concluded was a testament to Seymour's current standing in Whitehall. It was also, Seymour would later admit, a rather astute display of goo...
No emblem hung over its entrance, no brass lettering proclaimed the identity of its occupant. In fact, there was nothing at all to suggest it was the headquarters of one of the world’s most feared and respected intelligence services. A closer inspection of the structure, however, would have revea...
Shamron found no fault in this; in fact, he wholeheartedly approved. Lying, he said, was a distinctly human endeavor, even when it was being done by professionals. And a lie that was too well told was one not easily believed. Initially, there was confusion over precisely what had occurred at suns...
THE SUMMONS 1. COURCHEVEL, FRANCE 2 UMBRIA, ITALY 3 ASSISI, ITALY 4 ASSISI, ITALY 5 LLADEIFIORI, UMBRIA 6 ROME 7 ROME 8 VATICAN CITY 9 VATICAN CITY 10 BEN-GURION AIRPORT, ISRAEL 11 JERUSALEM 12 ST. PETERSBURG 13 MOSCOW 14 NOVODEVICHY CEMETERY 15 MOSCOW 16 MOSCOW 17 MOSCOW 18 FSB HEADQUARTERS, MOS...
