Realizing that her modeling career is declining and unfulfilling, Jacqueline accepts Gabriel’s role for her and seduces Yusef. The Kill Artist. As such, I can provide comments on all three elements: the story, the writing, and the narration. Peel had no way to follow him. The idea of creating this character happened during a dinner with some family friends, of whom one was an art restorer. This gave the author the idea of creating a quirky character, an art restorer by day and a spy and assassin by night. New York: Random House, 2000. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman comes the first novel in the thrilling series featuring legendary assassin Gabriel Allon. As with me many of my fellow book club members were left wanting to read more of this character's adventures. The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1) by Daniel Silva I recently read The Order, book number 20 in the series, and liked it very much. Jordan spearheaded a team that located and killed the operatives in the “Munich Massacre.” Seventeen years later, Tariq took vengeance upon Gabriel—family member for family member—by planting a bomb under the Allons’ car in Vienna. Shamron, however, insists that her identity as Dominique Bonard is secure and insists that Jordan continue the plan. Please try again. It … After a month the stranger vanished. Shortly thereafter, Israel’s ambassador is murdered in Paris. See All Audience Reviews Kill the Artist Quotes. Then Peel hit upon another possibility. So I went back to the first book. It's the first book featuring Gabriel Allon. Like any good surveillance artist, he required a fixed post. Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall flash the much feared and infamous 'The Kill Artist' Spring 2019. Shortly after Jacqueline begins this ‘diplomatic’ trip, she realizes that her identity and security have been compromised. It is very much of the “best-seller” type of novel but it is well written. THE KILL ARTIST by Daniel Silva ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 21, 2000 Silva churns out his fourth thrill-a-minute sure-fire bestseller in as many years (The Marching Season, 1999, etc. Unfortunately it wasn’t to my taste, although I di read it to the end. Jordan decides that he needs to set Yusef up with a female operative. Something went wrong. The Kill Artist was released in the UK on 20 June 2002. Perhaps the stranger was running the ketch out to sea to meet cargo vessels and ferry contraband to shore. Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2010. Tariq designs a plan where Jacqueline must prove her professed love for Yusef by accompanying Tariq on a supposedly diplomatic mission to the United States. The windows were open; a sharp odor hung on the air, something between rubbing alcohol and petrol. A man of great concentration, Peel concluded. He walked along the quay, past the stranger’s darkened cottage and the oyster farm, and stood at the point where the creek fed into the Helford River, watching the sailboats coming in with the tide. A few days passed, then a week, then a fortnight. Because he was eleven, and the only child of divorced parents, Peel was well schooled in the art of human observation and investigation. Jordan witnessed his family’s horrifying destruction. Peel had little to do that summer—when Derek and his mother weren’t making clamorous love, they were taking inspirational forced marches along the cliffs—so he determined to find out exactly who the stranger was and what he was doing in Cornwall. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. looking up at the stranger’s cottage. Unable to add item to List. In this fantastic spy novel, a man named Ari Shamron is reinstated to the position of director by the Prime Minister of Israel. THE KILL ARTIST | Kirkus Reviews The Kill Artist is not like that. He spotted a ketch heading in under power. As a result, he urges Gabriel to spearhead a secret assassination operation. The ketch was old and badly in need of restoration, and the stranger cared for it with the same devotion he had shown his fickle MG. The author pulls off the delicate operation of making no political statement whatsoever: this is congenial, undemanding genre fiction, in which even the good guys are bad, and the moral quandaries can't compete with the almost sexual thrill of very dangerous missions executed very well. By the end of August his skin had turned nearly as dark as the varnish he was so meticulously applying to the deck of the ketch. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. in it, it somehow manages to maintain a certain level of plausibility and credibility. His car was a vintage MG roadster. From worldwide best selling author Daniel Silva, praised by Newsday for "bringing new life to the international thriller," The Kill Artist is a taut and elegantly structured novel about a reluctant hero and his mission to destroy an old enemy and preserve international peace. There really isn’t a dull moment in the story, and despite the story having everything from spies, assassins, fashion models, art dealers and newspaper magnates, etc.