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Title: A Death in Vienna by DANIEL SILVA, TONY GOLDWYN ISBN: 0-7393-0932-3 Publisher: Random House Audio Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: On the trail of a Nazi war criminal.
Comment: "A Death in Vienna" is Daniel Silva's third novel about how the horrors of the Holocaust reach into the present. Gabriel Allon is a former Israeli spy who now works as an art restoration expert in Venice. His old boss from the Israeli Intelligence Service, Ari Shamron, appears one day with devastating news about an explosion in Vienna. Gabriel is not anxious to go back to the city where his wife and son had been victims of a car bomb in 1991. However, Shamron persuades him to return to this "forbidden city" to investigate the bombing of the Wartime Claims and Inquiries Office, which left two young women dead and an old friend, Eli Lavon, in a coma.
Gabriel soon learns that a man named Max Klein had set the events in motion that may have led to the bombing. Klein had once been a violinist in the Auschwitz camp orchestra and he had a particularly vivid memory of a Nazi named Erich Radek. In front of Klein, Radek once killed fifteen concentration camp prisoners in cold blood when they could not correctly identify a musical piece by Brahms. Many years later, Klein spots this same war criminal placidly having coffee in a Viennese café, and he reports what he has seen to Eli Lavon, who then begins to make the inquiries that almost cost him his life. Gabriel's investigation leads him to make some horrifying discoveries, the most painful one being the heart-rending story of his mother's two years of hell as an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Silva writes with great feeling about the harrowing events of the Holocaust and the culpability of those who helped the Nazis escape punishment after the war ended. In addition, Silva convincingly makes the point that radical right-wing political parties still pose a serious threat around the world, and that we must do everything in our power to protect our civil liberties in the face of these extremists. "A Death in Vienna" is fast-paced, compelling, and filled with intriguing twists and turns. It is a worthy, well-researched, and thought-provoking conclusion to Silva's excellent trilogy.
Rating: 4
Summary: A THROWBACK
Comment: Who knew working for an agency seeking reparations for victims of the Nazi era was so dangerous? It sounds like a job for lawyers and accountants. Not in Daniel Silva's Vienna, where the fortress-like Wartime Claims and Inquiries office is blown up by an agent known as the Clockmaker. Art restorer Gabriel Allon, a former Mossad assassin, is asked by his legendary ex-boss to investigate. The fast-paced plot leads Gabriel from Vienna, to the Austrian Alps, Israel, Rome, Argentina, Zurich, Munich and back again. In the process Silva gives his readers a short course on the mechanics of Hitler's Final Solution.
Gabriel discovers that the mastermind is an octogenarian Sturmbannfuhrer who played a key role in the Holocaust. He is sitting on a 2.3 billion dollar hoard of Nazi loot with which he hopes to re-establish fascist governments across Europe.
Silva's spy thriller, the final book of a trilogy featuring Allon, is a throwback. While LeCarre and other practitioner's of the genre have found new evil empires with which to frighten us, Silva still mines the Nazi motherlode very effectively. In 2004, it is reassuringly quaint to read about a CIA that can locate and compromise terrorist assets held in secret Swiss bank accounts and a Mossad that can pull off bloodless kidnappings against its murderous enemies.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent ending to a 3 book series
Comment: 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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