A Death in Vienna
by Daniel Silva
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Author: Daniel SilvaReader: Tony Goldwyn
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 2005-03-01
ISBN: 0739318144
Publisher: Random House Audio
Book Reviews of A Death in Vienna
Book Review: Slow, boring and unbelievable at times.
Summary: 3 Stars
Of the six books that I have read by Silva, this is the first three stars; the others were either four or five. This book was the third in the Gabriel Allon series and it became tiresome to read many details over for the third time. It is okay to keep some of the main characters from book to book, but to keep repeating so many details is robbing a reader's time and is boring to say the least. In addition to this it was a slow moving story and in many places was unbelievable.
Everywhere Gabriel went some person picked up the phone after he left and told the bad guys where he was, what he was doing and in some cases where he was going. This is the first book that I have read where the bad guys had an informer that just happened to work in every hotel, restaurant, etc. where Gabriel showed his face; this occurred in multiple cities in different countries. In some cases it was true in reverse; when Gabriel is in trouble suddenly an associate pops up from nowhere just when he about to be eliminated. In one case an assassin has targeted Allon in a cemetery but does he try a shot from cover? No he is out in the open walking towards Allon. Why was this? Was it so that Allon's friend that he didn't even know was in the country would have time to suddenly appear on a motorcycle in a graveyard and shoot the assassin.
I love surprises in a novel but they have to be based on a reasonable sequence that is in character for what you have been let to believe. Of the many thriller books that I have read the most consistent writer is John J, Nance which has many five stars for my reviews.
Summary of A Death in Vienna
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during the Death March from Auschwitz. But is it really the same one? If so, who is he? How did he escape punishment? Where is he now?Fueled by an intensity he has not felt in years, Allon cautiously begins to investigate, but the more layers he strips away, the greater the evil that is revealed, a web stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives. Soon, the quest for one monster becomes the quest for many. And the monsters are stirring . . .
Filled with sharply etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy, this is an uncommonly intelligent thriller by one of our very best writers.
Gabriel Allon hasn't been back to Vienna since his wife and child died there in a terrorist bombing. But when his mentor in the Israeli intelligence agency dispatches him to the Austrian capitol to investigate a murderous explosion at the Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office, his presence alerts the attention of police officials who have reasons to stand in the way of his investigation. When a concentration camp survivor is killed who could link the father of Austria's next chancellor to Nazi atrocities and an ongoing coverup by the Catholic Church, Allon discovers another connection to the conspiracy, this one closer to his own past than he could ever have imagined. This is the third of Silva's thrillers featuring Allon, the art restorer who's also a spy (The Confessor and The English Assassin are the first two). In an endnote, the author calls them a "completed cycle dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust." Allon is such a compelling hero that one hopes Silva, a skilled craftsman and a terrific story-teller, will bring him back in another series. --Jane Adams
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