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The Messenger (Gabriel Allon Series #6)

by Daniel Silva Daniel Silva

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ISBN-13:

9781101211144

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/25/2006
Series: Gabriel Allon Series
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 3,801
File size: 754 KB

Daniel Silva is the #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 and The Defector. He is married to NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel. They have two children, Lily and Nicholas. In 2009 Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.

Brief Biography

Date of Birth:: 1960

Place of Birth:: Michigan

Website:: http://www.danielsilvabooks.com

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The #1 national bestseller from the author of Prince of Fire

On the trail of a deadly al-Qaeda operative, Gabriel Allon returns in a spellbinding story of deception, power, and revenge by the New York Times bestselling "world-class practitioner of spy fiction" (Washington Post).

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Sometime Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon would prefer to pursue his love of art restoration, but threats of terrorism keep calling him back. In The Messenger, the computer of a dead al-Qaeda operative holds scattered clues to a massive future attack. To thwart that offensive, Allon must move with speed and stealth. Filled with trapdoors and plot surprises, this is a first-class post-9/11 thriller.

Patrick Anderson

[The book] is written in broad strokes, with villains more loathsome, terrorist attacks more spectacular and a plot more melodramatic than he's given us in the past. In terms of controversy, it won't hurt that his chief villain is a Saudi billionaire who finances terrorist attacks and is, in truth, a stand-in for the House of Saud itself, which "started the fire of the global jihad movement in the first place," Silva says. The author is quite serious in his contempt for the Saudis -- and U.S. officials who are seduced by them -- and yet, in an interview that accompanied the book, he jokes that he wants "The Messenger" to be a good beach read. There is, of course, nothing wrong with a writer wanting to have it both ways.
— The Washington Post

Library Journal

Echoes of 9/11 haunt Silva's sixth Gabriel Allon thriller. An attack on the Vatican leads the art restorer and Mossad agent on the trail of a wealthy Saudi suspected of financing al-Qaeda. Because Zizi collects Impressionist art, Gabriel creates a fake Van Gogh and enlists Sarah Bancroft, an American art historian, to infiltrate the ruthless billionaire's entourage. The author masterfully weaves together the worlds of art, espionage, and terrorism; few thriller writers balance entertainment and serious issues so well. The novel's structure is unusual for Silva, with Gabriel becoming secondary to Sarah in the second half, but the fears she faces are gripping. Christopher Lane reads quite well, though he gives Gabriel a phlegmatic drone that sounds more like Henry Kissinger than a man of action. Recommended for all collections.
—Michael Adams

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