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I think what may have killed this book for me was I read this just after reading John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold--and after having recently read Alan Furst and Eric Ambler while working through a recommendation list that included Silva among this number. I got spoiled and after reading the best in the espionage genre this struck me as nothing more than a generic pulp thriller with all the writing skill, complexity of characterization and plotting of a blow'm up rat-tat-tat of a
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Gabriel Allon gets pulled out of Cornwall to track down the guy who killed his wife and child. I think I like these books because the characters are all flawed in human ways. The're not automaticaly good or likeable, and they're not likeable all the time. Exciting.
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