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 enlarge | Author: Daniel Silva
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 4800
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 433
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.7
ISBN: 0399155015
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155017
ASIN: 0399155015
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
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Condition: Former library book. Professionally covered in plastic to protect your investment. Tight binding.
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 A penetrating look at the new Russia November 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Daniel Silva has become my favorite author in the thriller genera, and MOSCOW RULES is another winner.
Silva tosses Gabriel Allon into the boiling caldron of current world events--this time Putin's Russia. Allon must counter a sinister al-Qaeda plot to kill thousands of Westerners. but first, al-Qaeda must obtain a quantity of SA-18 missiles. The source of the shoulder launched Russian anti-aircraft missiles is Ivan Kharkov, a Russian oligarch and world class arms merchant.
Allon is in an Italian villa, happily restoring a masterpiece for the Vatican, when a building crisis causes his superior to recall him to help solve the murder of a Russian journalists. Silvia, takes his protagonists into the decadent capital of the new Russia, Moscow, and its wantabe Tsar, Putin.
MOSCOW RULES is a complex thriller, hard to put down--even for another cup of coffee. Tension builds as Allon unravels Kharkov's sinister plot. Silva takes the reader on a tour of Moscow that would never be approved by the Russian government. He also paints a picture of the new Russia that leaves no doubt about the Bear's ambitions, and that a new Cold Wars in coming.
Lee Boyland, author of two award winning techno-thrillers dealing with current events, Islamic terrorists and WMDs: The Rings of Allah and Behold, an Ashen Horse.
Gabriel in Moscow October 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mercedes, BMWs, Volvos, high speed bullet bikes, in Moscow; a new generation of wealth from exports of natural resources oil, steel, nickel, and commodities.
Gabriel action days seem to be coming to an end. He suffers a broken eye orbit and potential loss of sight from a damaged retina.
The books reveals the merciless action of death in Moscow of free reporting reporters. Suppression of the truth by two reporter murders has brought the attention of the Israeli intelligence. The arrows of Allah is funneling arms sales through Ivan Kharikov, a sell out move, Al Queda weapons acquistion, through Africa, and potential threat to US and Israel.
Elan, Ivan's wife, decides, she must stop her monsterous husband from kill more innocents. Gabriel designs plans too recruit Elan, manipulate an English Art dealer, professional deal with Sarah Crawford (who expressed her love for Gabriel in a moment to tension and enraged Chiara), and masterfully create a replica of "Two children on the Beach". Gabriel uses the desired painting too gain an opportunity to talk with Elena under the interrogating nature of Ivan. Ivan allows Elena to buy art because he has millions from weapons sales, prestige and power among the New Moscow, and a mansion whereby to house the art.
Ivan has weakness. Ivan is having an affair with 19 year old Moscow super model. Gabriel exploited the information to get Elena to help him obtain Ivans secret papers that will reveal the transaction locations.
Revenge and injury will be the excuse to keep Elana alive and allower her and the children to escape for Ivan.
Elana must get secret papers documenting the weapons transactions, but no plan is perfect and things go wrong. Gabriel is order by Shammron to abandon the operation, but Gabriel disobeys in an attempt to save Elena. FSB saves Gabriel and allows him to kill a number of Ivan's men.
Gabriel gets tortured twice, saves Elana and the children, stops a terrorist attack on US soil, and returns to Israel to resume his honeymoon with Chiara.
The books illustrates the Western transformation in Moscow and the lawless nature of the Russian environment and culture: bribery, softline communist, report deathes, and wealth oligarchy accumulation at the hand of organized crime.
Shocking images of socialized property structures with small cities living like rats in the structures.
 An excellent read October 26, 2008
This is the first Daniel Silva book I have read and I found it to be an entertaining pageturner which kept me wanting more. It is well-written and good entertainment. I gave it 4 stars and not 5 stars because it could have been better, but it was overall a very good, well researched story that I enjoyed. Garbriel Allon is a complex well crafted character who is superior to many other writer's heros in this genre which tend to be wooden and very simple. This is definitely a thinking persons thriller in the the direction of Le Carre.
He does it once again October 24, 2008
I am a big fan of Daniel Silva and have been trying to get my hands on anything he has written. So far I have not been disappointed. With his vast knowledge of present day political situations and an uncanny ability to create true suspense, I find myself being educated and thrilled all at the same time. Mr. Silva knows his stuff, and as an avid reader, I am already hungry for more.
 No More Paperback Purchases Here. October 13, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
having recently discovered silva, i've read two books so far and enjoyed them. i went to my neighborhood bookstore and found that all the paperback editions had been changed to these long type format books, which are ridiculous, a waste of paper (what idiots thought this up?) but, of course, with a whopping $2 dollars added on to the price (oh, yeah. that's why!). there is NO WAY i am going to pay $9.99 for a paperback book, especially when trade paper has gotten so excessive in cost in the last few years. too bad for the publisher and the author, but not me. they don't get my money, but i just read something else, my own books, the library, or a used book shop purchase. it's amazing how industries destroy themselves. additionally, one would think that once an author gets this kind of market power through big sales, he and his agent would be concerned with this kind of craven industry practice. guess not.
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