Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon Series #11)

by Daniel Silva

Overview

“A bona fide thrill ride.”
—Miami Herald
 
“Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot.”
—People
 
Portrait of a Spy is Silva’s eleventh thriller to feature art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon as he races from Great Britain to Washington to New York to the Middle East on the trail of a deadly and elusive terrorist network responsible for massacres in Paris, Copenhagen, and at London’s Covent Garden.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062072191
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/19/2011
Series:	Gabriel Allon Series
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	14,361
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, The English Spy, The Black Widow, House of Spies, The Other Woman, The New Girl, The Order, and The Collector. He is best known for his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon. Silva’s books are critically acclaimed bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives with his wife, television journalist Jamie Gangel, and their twins, Lily and Nicholas.

Date of Birth:

1960

Place of Birth:

Michigan

Website:

http://www.danielsilvabooks.com

Editorial Reviews

Antiterrorist expert Gabriel Allon would prefer to spend a quiet life as an art restorer, but events keep dragging him back into danger. In his eleventh book incarnation, Allon is strolling innocently with his wife in London when he spots a man who he instinctively identifies as a suicide bomber. Fate (in the form of a violent British undercover officer) unfortunately interferes before Gabriel can thwart the bomber's self-destructive mayhem, a detonation that marks the beginning of another Allon descent into riveting terrorist hunting. Subtle and suspenseful.

While enjoying a day in London with his wife, antiterrorist expert Gabriel Allon spots a man he believes to be a suicide bomber and follows him into Covent Garden. Alas, undercover police knock him down before he can intervene, and carnage ensues. Afterward, the CIA asks Gabriel to track down an American-born cleric now setting himself up as a rival to Osama bin Laden. Just what you'd expect of this New York Times top seller; with a one-day laydown on July 19, plus a 500,000-copy first printing. Buy multiples.

Library Journal

Gabriel Allon, Israeli mastermind and art restorer, is a master of disguises, and his "vocal portrait” has been attempted by numerous narrators. Simon Vance takes on the task here in Allon's eleventh caper as a globe-trotting modern spy. Yet Allon is illusive, and Vance doesn't quite nail it. Could it be that Allon is such a complex changeling that even the highly skilled and perceptive Vance doesn't quite inhabit him? Can anyone? Fans of the series, or newcomers, will mind little as Allon and his compatriots outwit terrorists, and their espionage "partners." Very dull, slightly muffled sound mars Vance's usual crisp speech and makes his subtleties hard to hear. The definitive portrait of this spy is yet unpainted. R.F.W. 2012 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2011 - AudioFile