A Death In Vienna: Summary and book reviews of A Death In Vienna by Daniel Silva, plus links to an excerpt from A Death In Vienna and a biography of Daniel Silva.
A Death In Vienna
by Daniel Silva
Hardcover: Feb 2004,
416 pages.
Paperback: Feb 2005,
400 pages.
The sins of the past reverberate into the present, in an extraordinary novel by the new master of international suspense.
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 with each layer that is stripped 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...
Rich 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.
Kirkus Reviews
A muffled hero caught in lethargic intrigue that will be disturbing news for readers who haven't already heard that many Austrians are in deep denial about their wartime history and that American hands aren't exactly clean in the matter of rehabilitating Nazis. The most chilling section is the historical note at the end.
Library Journal - Robert Conroy Warren
This is Silva's seventh novel and the concluding volume in a trilogy featuring Gabriel Allon, an aging, lonely, and reluctant Israeli assassin and art restorer.....As usual, Silva has crafted an exciting and complex novel. Recommended for all fiction collections.
Publishers Weekly
Those seeking cheap thrills should look elsewhere. Action and suspense abound, but this is serious fiction with a serious purpose.
Booklist - Connie Fletcher
Scrupulously avoiding the whiplash that comes from too much action in too many places in too short a time (an endemic condition in lesser spy novels), this finely wrought thriller reads like an exquisitely suspenseful chess game.
A conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin.
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