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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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 Gabriel Allon is Back... Daniel Silva Rules! September 21, 2008
Daniel Silva has given us another exciting and well written Gabriel Allon mystery. The story is very interesting and based upon current affairs - you will find yourself often wondering how much is fiction and how much is fact based upon some of the world's current events. Either way it is great!
You will enjoy this book if this is your introduction to Daniel Silva. You will soon find yourself seeking out all the other books in the series. If you are already a fan of Daniel Silva and Gabriel Allon you will enjoy this book and you will soon be wishing you did not finish it so soon and be anxiously waiting for the next adventure you can share with Gabriel Allon.
Thank you Daniel Silva! You Rule!
 Same Old, Same Old September 20, 2008
Despite the end of the Cold War, the Russian bogeyman still is accessible to the writers of spy/suspense stories. Even before the recent invasion of Georgia, the Russian "bad guys" were available to populate tales such as Moscow Rules. In fact, the title dates back to the classic le Carre novels.
This novel is another in the Gabriel Allon series. He, of course, is the larger-than-life art restorer cum Israeli agent, equally adept with paintings and mayhem. In this case, he has to save the world from a Russian arms dealer supplying accurate ground-to-air missiles to al Qaeda.
Written with the intensity and smoothness of its predecessors, Rules is as thoroughly exciting and entertaining as its forerunners. If Gabriel is a bit unreal, the character demands such a persona.
Recommended.
The Real Deal September 20, 2008
The latest in a series that proves Silva is the real deal when it comes to the international thriller. His combination of research and inside access to those in the know, is without a close second. I knew in the Kill Artist, the first in this series, when Silva described the role of Mossad citizen-helpers, vice agents or officers of the service, he knew what he was talking about. When you see terms like "National Clandestine Service" and "GRU" that don't require a Wikipedia paragraph to explain them, that context is enough, that's the real deal. My only minor issue is some of the plot tracks so closely with real world events, (the murder of real world Russian journalists in aka for example), that it becomes difficult to stay in the fictional story. Otherwise - it's great.
Spy vs. Spy plays very well in Silva's latest September 19, 2008
Gabriel Allon, the now world-renowned agent for the Israeli secret service, is pulled from his honeymoon back into duty when Russian journalists are killed trying to tell him something about a threat from a Russian businessman whose real business is supplying weapons to terrorists worldwide. A new setting for Silva, but he handles describing the current oligarchy in Russia incisively and deftly. Silva is in top form here once again - no preaching, but straightforward spy vs. spy work right off the bat.
Gabriel is aging well, and still remarkably capable of handling the demands of the task he sets for himself: rescuing the defecting wife from the terrorist-supplying husband before she or her children or anyone on Gabriel's team can be killed in the process. It's a dangerous operation and the locales are several - Besides his own team, all of whom we have met in previous books, Gabriel pulls in his American CIA friend, the French government, and even encounters aid in Russia when least expected and most needed. This book crackles and ratchets tension up as the plans and players race against a clock to bring down the weapons deal before Al-Queda can launch their largest attack ever.
Great read Silva does it again! September 19, 2008
I could not wait for this new book to come out and it was well worth the wait.
I love the way Silva builds the story line, keeps you thinking.
Gabriel was at his best again.
The story line sure makes you think how things really happen behind the headlines and within our government.
The ending was a little unclear but I know Gabriel and his friends will be back.
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