The Kill Artist: 1 (Gabriel Allon)

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The Kill Artist: 1 (Gabriel Allon)

The Kill Artist: 1 (Gabriel Allon)

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Azouri and al-Hourani meet again in Lisbon. Al-Hourani explains that he has identified Jacqueline Delacroix and will use her on his next operation. Quando o Daniel Silva já tinha o controlo dos meus pensamentos e emoções, eis que me é apresentada Sarah, conhecida no mundo da moda como Jacqueline Delacroix. A agente de 33 anos é uma presença imprescindível para o enredo. Esta mulher bela e independente é uma poderosa presença feminina na vida de Gabriel Allon. Mr. Silva is adept at not being needlessly one sided in this novel. There are clear good and bad guys, but he does give voice to the grievances that the Palestinian terrorists make. This was an interesting choice, as it does force the reader to realize that although one side may be a bit more moral than the other, there are still legitimate grievances on both sides of the issue. Daniel Silva’s book sounds great! A spy who restores masterpieces, who is out for revenge for his murdered family but doesn’t really like to kill people. He’s recruited from retirement by a ruthless Israeli agent who wants to stop an equally ruthless Palestinian terrorist. Ruthless is the key word here – everyone is ruthless. It’s like a drinking game. The characters are flat, and there isn’t anyone you can really feel emotionally invested in. And I’ve said this before, but give me a villain I want to defeat soundly. The terrorists and agents in this story just depressed me. I didn’t get the sense anyone was better off, or anything was much accomplished here – all the work and killing people just adds fuel to the fire of this conflict. I can’t get behind that. And knowing Gabriel is just going to get pulled out of retirement again to fight some more of the same old baddies was just anti-climactic. Julian Isherwood, a British art dealer who has no illusions about the fact that he is getting older and the business is not as lucrative as it once was when he was younger. Allon is his most sought-after restorer, but he also knows that Allon’s other life as a spy may drag him away from his studio work and thus ruin Isherwood.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

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The head of the Ottawa Station meets Shamron and Gabriel in Montreal. He reports that he and his staff followed Jacqueline and another woman from the airport to the hotel, where the woman turned Jacqueline over to a man who might be Tariq al-Hourani. Zvi also tells Shamron that King Saul Boulevard is aware that something is happening in Canada. Al-Hourani stayed by Jacqueline's side while she bought winter clothing. At the hotel, Jean, the concierge and a sayan, gives Gabriel a magnetic card key which Gabriel uses to enter al-Hourani's room to plant a bug. Gabriel then goes to the Office command post in a nearby hotel. The escape routes are planned. Another member of the Ottawa Station staff provides video of al-Hourani. Shamron says it is time to end the operation and go home. Gabriel spearheaded a team that located and killed the operatives in the “Munich Massacre.” Seventeen years later, Tariq took vengeance upon Gabriel—family member for family member—by planting a bomb under the Allons’ car in Vienna. Gabriel witnessed his family’s horrifying destruction. His son Dani died instantly, while his wife Leah was left with a shattered mind and body.

Eh. Kind of an ordinary spy thriller, one I might have appreciated more had I read it 15-20 years ago when I was less jaded. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. This is a whirlwind adventure that will take you all over Europe and the Middle East before ending up in the USA. Gabriel sends Jacqueline to the same club al-Tawfiki plans to visit, hoping that al-Tawfiki will be attracted to her. He is. Al-Tawfiki invites Jacqueline to his apartment. She accepts and they sleep together. The next morning, while al-Tawfiki is showering, Jacqueline makes impressions of the keys to his building and apartment. She fears al-Tawfiki knows what she has done, but accepts his invitation to dinner that evening.Uzi flies to Jerusalem with a video tape of he ambassador's last minutes. After he and Shamron review the tape, Uzi visits Bella. Yossi Gavish identifies a waiter on the tape. Jacqueline Delacroix, a beautiful French supermodel who is also an Israeli spy. She uses her seductive charms and feminine wiles to help lure suspected or known terrorists into compromising positions for intel-gathering. During her last mission with Gabriel, the two became more intimate than their cover-identities required. Shortly after, Tariq’s car-bomb killed Allon’s son and left his wife a vegetable. She is conflicted: while she has tremendous guilt about what happened during the last mission, she can’t help but still be in love with Allon. There are a lot of dead end roads here. So many in fact you will be hard pressed to guess just who are the hunters and who are the hunted. It will keep you on your toes.



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