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dr_laurie_1968 's review for:
The Kill Artist
by Daniel Silva
Here's my review for my synagogue newsletter:
The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva is the first book in a series of thrillers featuring Gabriel Allon, Mossad spy/assassin and art restorer. Gabriel is an assassin with a conscience and a cover job that is his passion. He has tried to leave behind the troubling facts of his life in the Mossad following the car bombing of his wife and child. Art restoration is truly his calling and passion, but he cannot stay off the radar when his old boss comes to him to find a terrorist from his past. Part of the problem for Gabriel is that he is very good at what he does, tracking and assassinating his marks and he is called back into service when a chance opens up to locate one of Israel’s most wanted. Gabriel notes that art restoration and assassination have more in common than one would think, “study the target, become like him, do the job, slip away without a trace.”
Silva keeps the plot moving with enough twists and turns to stave off predictability. The writing is engaging and he takes the time to develop the main characters so that there is interest in what happens to them. Even the terrorists are not one-dimensional. In addition, the tension is kept elevated by a game of “who knows what?” that the reader is privy to but the main characters are not. The twelfth book in the series, The Fallen Angel, was just published in July, giving the reader much more to look forward to.
The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva is the first book in a series of thrillers featuring Gabriel Allon, Mossad spy/assassin and art restorer. Gabriel is an assassin with a conscience and a cover job that is his passion. He has tried to leave behind the troubling facts of his life in the Mossad following the car bombing of his wife and child. Art restoration is truly his calling and passion, but he cannot stay off the radar when his old boss comes to him to find a terrorist from his past. Part of the problem for Gabriel is that he is very good at what he does, tracking and assassinating his marks and he is called back into service when a chance opens up to locate one of Israel’s most wanted. Gabriel notes that art restoration and assassination have more in common than one would think, “study the target, become like him, do the job, slip away without a trace.”
Silva keeps the plot moving with enough twists and turns to stave off predictability. The writing is engaging and he takes the time to develop the main characters so that there is interest in what happens to them. Even the terrorists are not one-dimensional. In addition, the tension is kept elevated by a game of “who knows what?” that the reader is privy to but the main characters are not. The twelfth book in the series, The Fallen Angel, was just published in July, giving the reader much more to look forward to.