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  <title><![CDATA[The Defector (Gabriel Allon, #9)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Over the course of a remarkable career, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world&#8217;s finest writers of international intrigue, a craftsman worthy of comparison to John le Carr&#233; and Graham Greene. His latest bestseller, Moscow Rules, was not only superior entertainment, but a prescient cautionary tale about the emergence of the New Russia. Now he takes that tale to the next level.

Six months after the blood-soaked conclusion of Moscow Rules, Allon is in Umbria, trying to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, when a colleague pays him a shocking visit. The man who saved Allon&#8217;s life in Moscow and was then resettled in England has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, and they blame Allon for planting him. To discover the truth and clear his name, Allon must go immediately to London&#8212;a decision that will prove to be the most fateful of his career.

In the British capital, he finds himself once more on the front lines of the secret war between East and West, where Russian spies and dissidents engage in the old game of cat and mouse. There, Allon uncovers a much greater conspiracy, a plot by an old enemy to resurrect a network of death, to bring the world to the precipice of a new confrontation, and in order to stop it, he must risk everything: his ties to an organization he has served since his youth, his new marriage . . . even his life.

The Defector is more than the most explosive thriller of the summer. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance, and courage created by the writer whom the critics call &#8220;the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world&#8221; (Orlando Sentinel).</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">7</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Defector (Gabriel Allon, #9)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Daniel Silva]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Fred]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 28 07:21:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 06 22:05:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Audiobook on the Indiana road trip. It's a decent story if you've read the others in the series. Otherwise, too much back story and not enough new plot.<br/><br/>These days, Gabriel Allon spends more time reminiscing about his past adventures than jumping into new ones.]]></body>
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    <review id="64802682">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lake Zurich, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 14:57:06 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 24 11:22:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 01 14:57:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Daniel Silva is very good writer, and Gabriel Allon is a captivating character with a complex mind. However, the author seems to have run out of ideas because Gabriel is doing the exact same things that he's done time and time again. There is very little originality in The Defector. The plot has a b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64802682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66016478">
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    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Clancy fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 11:26:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 03 11:56:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Defector by Daniel Silva (pp. 480)<br/>The latest installment of Daniel Silva’s thriller series starring Gabriel Allon, a conflicted Isreali spy is a near sequel to last year’s Moscow Rules.  After finding a somewhat normal life with his new wife, Allon gets thrown back into the mix when th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66016478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76089097">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 29 00:07:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 30 09:33:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent thriller in the Gabriel Allon series. These are not the kind of books you read back-to-back. For one thing, they're pretty intense, and very violent. They can also be, as someone else remarked, somewhat repetitive because they run to a defined pattern. Read at wide intervals, that familiar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76089097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72771638">
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    <location><![CDATA[Chevy Chase, MD]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 28 09:26:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 01 12:36:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the last few Daniel Silva books more out of habit just to see what hell he was going to put Allon through. It seemed he was just repeating the pattern he had established in his early books - the ones I had read and enjoyed.  Part of my difficulty of was the fact that Gabriel and I are probabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72771638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68092770">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rob]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Glendale, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 19 15:48:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 19 16:02:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grigori Bolganov saved Gabriel Allon's life as well as the wife of a Russian arms dealer when they were captured in an escape attempt from Russia. During the escape, Grigori asked Gabriel, that if they were ever captured, Gabriel should never allow Grigori to be buried in unmarked grave. Now, Grigor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68092770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73008046">
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    <location><![CDATA[Granger, IN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 30 10:26:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 30 10:37:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, I believe, the 9th book in a series with protagonist Gabriel Allon, who is a Jewish assasin/operative of the Israeli version of the CIA who repairs paintings for the Vatican when he's not on assignment to kill someone. Really, who could make up a character like that but it totally works! Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73008046">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67625994">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 16 12:29:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 17 17:53:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gabriel Allon and his compatriots take on Russian Arms dealer and all around nasty when defector Grigori Bulganov disappears from a London Street 6 months after he defects from Russia with Gabriel's help (See Silva's novel &quot;Moscow Rules&quot;.  As is often the case with Allon, there is lots of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67625994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67382046">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bill]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Honolulu, HI]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 14 09:53:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 14 10:01:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gabriel Allon is one of the most interesting characters in suspense/thriller fiction. A world renowned art restorer for the Vatican, under a pseudonym of course, who regularly is called to his other job by the Israeli covert ops group to eliminate individuals and groups who are threats to the Israel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67382046">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69012639">
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    <name><![CDATA[Richard]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who likes the adventurous spy story; modern political thrillers.]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[I read all Mr. Silva's work.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 26 16:48:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's another run and chase story that covers most of the Western world from Italy to England; Israel to Russia by way of the US.<br/>Mr. Silva gives us such apt descriptions, it is easy to visualize this as a thrilling movie. His characters and storyline are so believable, he puts in lots of disc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69012639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75845305">
    <user id="2445876">
    <name><![CDATA[JoAnn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tampa, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Oct 26 19:40:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I have read this year! This was a great read from the first page to the very last! Wow, this is a book that keeps the reader engaged through out the entire book!<br/><br/>Gabriel Allon is back at it and he is amazing in this one. This is a follow up to Moscow Rules. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75845305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75078373">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another adventure involving Gabriel Allon the great Isreali and art restorer. I always look forward to Mr. Silvas next release and can't get enough of this great character and his adventures to save the state of Isreal from its enemy's. The only thing that I would recommend is that you first at leas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75078373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cleveland, OH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 05 08:29:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Daniel Silva is one of my favorite authors and I have read everything by him. In this book he continues his series about a paintings conservator who happens to also be an assassin/agent for the Israeli government. Always action packed with twists at every turn this book was done in typical Silva sty...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49046041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72912164">
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    <location><![CDATA[Westfield, NJ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 29 12:39:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 09 07:25:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily readable, this latest effort from Silva continues the saga of Gabriel Allon's confrontation with Alex, the russian arms dealer.  In the last story in this series, Allon, helps Elena, Alex's former wife defect with their two children and a Russian intelligence officer (who really saved Allon's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72912164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72945226">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 29 18:28:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 01 14:18:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, this is not a classic but as far as spy novels go, this one is a winner. The pages turn themselves. From the minute you pick up this book, you will not want to put it down. The excitement never ends. The storyline flows seamlessly throughout. The characters are very well developed and you live ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72945226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Defector picks up 6 months after the conclusion of Moscow Rules and draws our conflicted hero, Israeli assassin Gabriel Allon, back to work as he works to fulfill his promise to the Russian intelligence officer who saved his life in Moscow Rules, endangering his wife and closest colleagues in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67123788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read every Daniel Silva book that comes out.  It is a little like TV for me.  However, even given that I don't read Silva for its breathtaking prose this was a disappointment.  This book, relatively to many of his others, was quite weak.  I am not sure how much longer he can keep up the Gabriel Al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73753911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had not previously read Daniel Silva, but he's an author I'll keep on my list.  The spy-adventure novel has interesting characters from the Israeli spy agency, good storyline, and the author keeps the action moving.  It is a sequel to a previous book, but you can easily read this book without havi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65063504">more...</a>]]></body>
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