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The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
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The Kill Artist (original 2000; edition 2004)

by Daniel Silva

Series: Gabriel Allon (1)

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman comes the first novel in the thrilling series featuring legendary assassin Gabriel Allon.

Immersed in the quiet, meticulous life of an art restorer, former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon keeps his past well behind him. But now he is being called back into the gameâ??and teamed with an agent who hides behind her own mask...as a beautiful fashion model.  

Their target: a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part in Gabrielâ??s past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into a globe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deep personal passi
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Title:The Kill Artist
Authors:Daniel Silva
Info:Signet (2004), Paperback, 512 pages
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Pretty much a bowl of crap. I picked it off a list with other books I like. ( )
  Mcdede | Jul 19, 2023 |
This book was recommended to me as both an excellent story with good insight into the state of affairs in the Middle East. I have to agree. I look forward to reading more in the series ( )
  Fish_Witch | Jul 4, 2023 |
First book on the Gabriel Allon series.
Plot to assassinate Arafat by Palestine. Enjoyable, although not as well characterized or plotted as the later books in the series.. ( )
  fwbl | Feb 22, 2023 |
Gabriel Allon is a reclusive high-end art restorer living in Cornwall. He's also a retired assassin for the Israeli counterintelligence security division. When an Israeli diplomat and his wife are killed in Paris, the division chief seeks Gabriel out for one more mission. Jacqueline Delacroix, née Sarah Halévy, is a beautiful French model, who does occasional work for The Office. She and Gabriel had worked on a job in the past, and he calls on her to help him once again. Together they seek to take down a deadly Palestinian terrorist.

I wanted to like this espionage tale more than I did. At first I was turned off by the descriptions of women only by their physical characteristics. Yes, women have breasts. Then it seemed to be setting up the only good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian, who is inevitably a terrorist, trope. As the book progressed, it did get into the Nakba or Catastrophe and a slightly more complex picture of the situation, but not enough to satisfy this reader. ( )
  labfs39 | Oct 28, 2022 |
Not as enjoyable as later entries in the series, but still worth reading even if only to see how certain characters got their start. ( )
  Jthierer | Mar 9, 2022 |
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Send men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a prince among them"
Numbers 12:1-2
By way of deception, thou shalt do war.

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For Jamie, who made this one possible, and everything else, for that matter
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The restorer raised his magnifying visor and switched off the bank of fluorescent lights.
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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman comes the first novel in the thrilling series featuring legendary assassin Gabriel Allon.

Immersed in the quiet, meticulous life of an art restorer, former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon keeps his past well behind him. But now he is being called back into the gameâ??and teamed with an agent who hides behind her own mask...as a beautiful fashion model.  

Their target: a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part in Gabrielâ??s past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into a globe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deep personal passi

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