Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"Silva writes le Carre-style spy novels in which the action...retains knife-edge-sharp suspense....Scrupulously avoiding the whiplash that comes from too much action...this finely wrought thriller reads like an exquisitely suspenseful chess game." Connie Fletcher, Booklist
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"Four living American writers can be considered world-class practitioners of spy fiction: Charles McCarry, Robert Littell, Alan Furst and Daniel Silva....As in his earlier novels, Silva writes with style, economy and a sure command of the historical record." The Washington Post
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"A muffled hero caught in lethargic intrigue that will be disturbing news for readers....The most chilling section is the historical note at the end." Kirkus Reviews
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"Provocative and deeply satisfying....A Death in Vienna isn't just a masterfully constructed tale of memory and revenge, it demonstrates that thrillers can be more than entertainment." Detroit Free Press
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"A masterful and compelling tale of evil, treachery and revenge...goes to the top of the list of this year's best." Rocky Mountain News
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"[W]ith A Death in Vienna...Silva has...complet[ed] the circle he began in The Confessor and The English Assassin. Taken together or as stand-alone novels, they are worthy additions to the libraries of thriller fans everywhere." BookReporter.com
Synopsis
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a bombing and uncovers a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives and into his own personal nightmares.
About the Author
Daniel Silva is the author of the bestselling novels The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, and The Confessor. He lives with his wife, NBC correspondent Jamie Gangel.