The Book Depository The Defector by Daniel Silva
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Description: The Defector : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141042763 : 0141042761 : 22 Jul 2010 : Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Umbria, when shocking news arrives from London. A Russian defector who saved his life has vanished without a trace. British Intelligence suspect he was a double agent, but Allon knows better. The Book Depository The Defector by Daniel Silva - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780141042763
MPN: 0141042761
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Rating: 5
Review: Bloody, brutal and probable. It is a fictional story of behind the scenes in the world of good versus evil. The warped and cruel minds of out of control psychotic consumed with materialistic greed and power. A glimpse into the underbelly of espionage and what sometimes has to be done just to keep the world marginally safer. Fast paced grim and gripping with the ever present tinge of personal grief this is a cracking story,
Author: Terry D
Rating: 3
Review: The twelfth commandment of the Israeli intelligence community is extremely simple: `We don't wave our guns around like gangsters and make idle threats. We draw our weapons in the field for one reason and one reason only...' And, in `The Defector', this results in a lot of bodies, generally Russian or their cronies, generally with an extremely neat hole drilled in their heads. Although `The Defector' is a self-contained thriller it's effectively a sequel toMoscow Rules with the same good guys and the same bad guys. Basically it's Gabriel Allon against the Russian gun-running thug (turned oligarch) Ivan Kharkov. And this time, Kharkov's wife plus her children, the defector himself and Chiara Zolli - Allon's beautiful Italian-born wife - are all heavily involved. To me the book is a less than effective sequel to `Moscow Rules'; the storyline is weak in places whilst the level of violence - even accepting that Ivan Kharkov and his cohorts are extremely unpleasant and extremely vicious - frequently veers towards the gratuitous. The political element brings into play the highest levels of the American, British and Russian authorities but, unfortunately, is less than credible. Fortunately the final section, involving a high degree of last-minute co-operation between Israeli intelligence and an elite group of Russian Alpha forces, helped restore my slightly dented faith in Daniel Silva. And, before you start on `The Defector', it's a good idea to read `Moscow Rules'.
