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A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)

Daniel Silva

Start date: December 1, 2012

Finish date: December 31, 2012

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Jun 30, 2011 Wanda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Once again Gabriel Allon, part time art restorer and Israeli agent is called backed into the field. A bombing in Vienna destroys the Jewish center for Holocaust records and research killing two young women and critically injuring the director--an old friend of Gabriel. He puts down his paint brushes and leaves the project in Venice to travel to Vienna. There the journey back to the Holocaust begins and the search for a former SS officer guilty of producing a mass cover-up for the horrors of that ...more

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Mar 25, 2011 Kay Green rated it liked it

This was my least favorite of Silva's books so far, but still a fast and interesting read. if I had read it as a standalone book, I would probably rate it higher, but I just like some of the others better.
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Oct 20, 2015 Georgia Carvalho rated it liked it

It was a solid book, incredibly sad and touching at times, but not nearly as good as some of the later books in the series (Rembrandt Affair, Heist, English Girl).

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