- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Penguin UK
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0141019085
- ISBN-13: 978-0141019086
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent ending to a 3 book series,
By Kristi (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death In Vienna (Hardcover)
I had just finished reading the last/newest book from my favorite author Patricia Cornwell and needed something new. On her website she recommended this book. When I looked into it further I decided to read the first two in the series as well. In 2 weeks I read all 3 books, and I have 4 children and a full time job. All three books just can't be put down!! The characters are so well written that you forget the books are fiction (even though some of the book is based on reality). I could picture the whole scene in my mind. I would highly recommend all 3 of these novels. Daniel Silva is a first rate author in my book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
If only it were true . . .,
By Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death In Vienna (Hardcover)
A bomb explodes in the Vienna office of a hunter of German war criminals.Thus is "art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon" drawn into a search for a repulsive former German officer, sadist, torturer and killer.If the story weren't based on an actual human disaster of massive magnitude, it would be more enjoyable. Instead, to be reminded of the millions cold-bloodedly murdered by the German nation and its allies is depressing. But Silva writes a suspense filled novel of Allon's search. The characters are richly human. They are not supermen; they are humans seeking justice in an unjust world. Even for crimes that happened a half-century, their passion to seek justice for the dead drives them to put their own lives at risk. Silva's plot never stops or falters. The action keeps pushing ahead, though the reader might find a need to take a break from the recounting of the gruesome deeds being avenged. The knowledge that the background events Silva weaves into his story are, as noted, not the kind of things most people want to think about. But Silva tells a story of long-delayed justice that we can all hope - or wish - takes place in venues outside of fiction. Jerry
5.0 out of 5 stars
A STELLAR VOICE PERFORMANCE,
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This review is from: A Death in Vienna (Audio CD)
Although a scion of Hollywood's famed Goldwyn family, Tony Goldwyn has very much made it on his own as producer, director, and actor. As producer he brought us "A Walk On The Moon" (1999); as director he gave us "Someone Like You" (2001). His acting credits are extensive with TV appearances running the gamut from "Frasier" to "L.A. Law." He voiced the title character for Disney's "Tarzan." All who heard know he is a voice performer par excellence, and this is evidenced once again in his reading of Silva's latest.International suspense is Daniel Silva's milieu, and strongly imagined characters only one of his strengths. He has been compared to the masterful John le Carre, and rightly so. "A Death In Vienna" is related to two of his earlier works, "The English Assassin" and "The Confessor." For pure pleasure and a greater appreciation read or listen to all three. This time out an art restorer who doubles as a spy, Gabriel Allon, is summoned to Vienna where an old friend has died in a bombing. His task is to ferret out the truth behind this death. As clues lead to a man now living in Vienna, the search takes on new meaning for Allon as he reads his mother's account of her days in a concentration camp: "I will not tell all the things I saw. I cannot. I owe this much to the dead." - Testimony of Irene Allon, March 19, 1957. Not only may this man be responsible for his friend's death, but may also have tried to kill Allon's mother. Shadows of the Holocaust fall on this elegantly wrought tale of suspense.
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