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Book Description:
The sins of the past reverberate into the present, in an extraordinary novel by the new master of international suspense.
It was an ordinary-looking photograph. Just the portrait of a man. But the very sight of it chilled Allon to the bone.
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during the Death March from Auschwitz. But is it really the same one? If so, who is he? How did he escape punishment? Where is he now?
Fueled by an intensity he has not felt in years, Allon cautiously begins to investigate; but with each layer that is stripped away, the greater the evil that is revealed, a web stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives. Soon, the quest for one monster becomes the quest for many. And the monsters are stirring...
Rich with sharply etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy, this is an uncommonly intelligent thriller by one of our very best writers.
It was an ordinary-looking photograph. Just the portrait of a man. But the very sight of it chilled Allon to the bone.
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during the Death March from Auschwitz. But is it really the same one? If so, who is he? How did he escape punishment? Where is he now?
Fueled by an intensity he has not felt in years, Allon cautiously begins to investigate; but with each layer that is stripped away, the greater the evil that is revealed, a web stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives. Soon, the quest for one monster becomes the quest for many. And the monsters are stirring...
Rich with sharply etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy, this is an uncommonly intelligent thriller by one of our very best writers.
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Genres:
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Mystery >> General
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Thrillers >> Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Thrillers >> Suspense
- Mystery & Thrillers >> General
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Author: Daniel Silva
In starting this book, I’ve done what I hate to do – read book three in a trilogy before book one. All I know is now I want to get my hands on book one and book two.
The main character, Gabriel Allon, is the same in the three books, as is his life, his back story. His job – spy – is also the same. I am assuming that the individual situations he gets involved in close with the end of each book.
Since Gabriel Allon is an operative for the Israeli network, and is the son of a survivor of the Holocaust, Jewish issues and concerns figure prominently in the series. The author describes the books as “three novels dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust”.
This is an old-fashioned thriller with many characters in many countries. There are twists and turns. A person’s history can come back to haunt him.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A DEATH IN VIENNA by Daniel Silva In book 4 of this series, chief investigator Eli Lavon is almost killed in a bombing at the Austrian Wartime Claims and Inquiries office. Art restorer and undercover Mossad agent Gabriel Allon is ordered by Israeli spymaster Ari Shamron to ferret out the perpetrator. Allon is reluctant - he's working as an art restorer on one of Bellini's great altarpieces in Venice - but Eli is an old friend from the secret service, and duty calls. Sturmbannfhrer Erich Radek's job was to erase all evidence of the Holocaust during the final days of World War II and is now known as Ludwig Vogel, chairman of the Danube Valley Trade and Investment Corporation and lives quietly in Vienna. Allon discovers that his own mother was almost one of Radeks victims during her time in the camps. As with the previous efforts, this one is not only entertaining but also thought provoking, addressing issues some might wish to leave covered over.