guiltyfeat 's review for:

The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva

4.0

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James Ellroy was talking about the Gabriel Allon books and I’m a sucker for mass market paperbacks going cheap in second-hand stores. It’s an odd start to the series. Functional and efficient, but it’s hard to see how an entire series has been built around Allon given that he gets almost every single thing wrong here, he’s outwitted by the terrorist (who just decides NOT to go ahead with his plan in the end) and he’s totally and unwittingly manipulated by his own boss. Also he gets shot, he loses track of the one woman he’s supposed to protect and she ends up shooting the bad guy after Allon barges right into a bullet. He’s just not terribly good.

I have to imagine he gets better later on.