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click here.road trip audio book. did not like this one as well as the other D Silva books that I have read. it did not make sense that Gabriel was jumped at Gessler's estate when taking Peterson there. as highly trained as he is supposed to be, that did not make sense but maybe I fell asleep for a minute and missed something. Also the piece of the story about the Englishman was confusing as well. He is an assassin with the Corsicans and was dispatched to Venice to kill the violinist but at the end he (and road trip audio book. did not like this one as well as the other D Silva books that I have read. it did not make sense that Gabriel was jumped at Gessler's estate when taking Peterson there. as highly trained as he is supposed to be, that did not make sense but maybe I fell asleep for a minute and missed something. Also the piece of the story about the Englishman was confusing as well. He is an assassin with the Corsicans and was dispatched to Venice to kill the violinist but at the end he (and compatriots) seem to be the ones to kill Gessler. maybe in future books we will learn more about the Englishman, what happened to all of the stolen paintings that Gessler had and if Gabriel and the violinist make a go of it. A swiss banker that collaborated with the Nazi's in WWII has a lot of paintings that were stolen from the Jews. He decides to return them to the Jewish people before he dies. Someone kills him instead and steals the paintings. Gabriel was selected to go examine the painting prior to repatriation he discovers the body. ...more
