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Death in Vienna Paperback – January 1, 2005

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Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing that gravely injured an old friend, but while there he encounters something that turns his world upside down. It is a face --- a face that feels hauntingly familiar, a face that chills him to the bone.

While desperately searching for answers, Allon will uncover a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives --- and into his own personal nightmares ...

Book 4 of 23

Gabriel Allon
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January 1, 2005
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4.37 x 1.02 x 7.13 inches
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (January 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141019085
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141019086
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.37 x 1.02 x 7.13 inches

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Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, and The English Spy. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world. He serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and lives in Florida with his wife, CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.

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Juanita Wingo

This Is The Real Daniel Silva

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021

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I am reading through Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series for the third time. Normally I would get books from the library, but my library is closed because of the pandemic. I am purchasing Silva's books in paperback now. They are the only books I will spend money on. This novel and all of his early novels are what kept me waiting for July when a new Daniel Silva book would come out. His writing in these earlier novels is exquisite. The storytelling, characters, detailed scenic descriptions, and periodic comic relief in the midst of the tragedies described are what makes Daniel Silva's novels stand alone. Death in Vienna is one of his best. The way the story begins with my beloved Eli in danger is story telling at its best. I have cried, laughed, and stared at the words in unbelief throughout this novel. Silva just captures you and draws you into the world of Gabriel and Ari until you just want to know that all will be well and that all will survive. I am writing this review because re-reading Silva's books remind me of his brilliance but causes me to wonder what happened to his writing in his last three books, in particular, the last one - The Order. This last book is nothing like the Daniel Silva's writing that I know and admire. He became preachy, hurried in his story line, and there is practically no characterization at all. What happened? I will continue to read Silva's books because I love Gabriel, Ari and all of the characters. But, please Daniel, take your time, go back and read your first works, see the detail, see the descriptions, see the way you build your characters until we feel like we know them so well. Come back to us Daniel. We need Gabriel and Ari and Eli and all the others to take us into their world and let us see the universe through their eyes and go places we may never get to travel to. Your writing is too precious to lose its way. Come back. Bring your writing back. I'm still a fan and will remain so. July 2021 is coming. And...thank you for giving us Gabriel and Ari.

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Maureen E. Huerter

as the world turns.

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2023

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Gabriel always manages to capture my attention. This adventure was less bloody than others, and more introspective. It was a nice change of pace. As the world turns and he regains his foothold it is interesting, his distancing himself from the past.

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Jane Doe

One of his best

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024

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Riveting, fast paced, educational, and necessary for all people to be aware of in order to stop this from happening again.

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024

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I thought the last one was my fave but I think it’s the one now. So interesting and heartfelt and intriguing to read

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Charles Kovacs

About the Holocaust...

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022

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This is the last of the first four books of Daniel Silva's long series about the life and doings of an Israeli agent. All of these books (the first one less so) are related to the Holocaust and especially to those, mostly non-Germans, who were complicit, or benefited from the Holocaust. A Death in Vienna (ADIV) has much more about the Holocaust itself with many horrific details, and its chief villain is an Austrian SS/SD officer. ADIV's plot is about what happened to this officer after 1945 and how Gabriel and the Israeli secret service (the Office) find and capture him. The many twists and turns are resolved at the end of 400+ pages written with the outstanding literary skills of Mr. Silva. Indeed, these skills are of such excellence that they successfully obscure or compensate for some improbable events as well as for the incredible good luck of the protagonist. However, this is after all a thriller, and as such, it is one of the best.

The institutional villains of the previous books in this series were the Swiss bankers and, the Vatican. In ADIV, and to a lesser extent, it is the CIA. Mr. Silva is clearly offended by the CIA's role in taking up the Gehlen Network after World War II. Indeed, at the book's end, ithe Author's Note concludes with "What impact did men such as these (i.e. Reinhard Gehlen) have on the conduct of American foreign policy during the early years of the Cold War? The answer may never fully be known." Well, the answers are in fact very well known. Soviet policy after 1945 was clearly aggressive, e.g. Trieste (1945), Greece (from 1945 onwards), and Berlin (1948), not to mention the attempted subversion of Italy and France. The US response to the Soviet moves was the dispatch of military equipment and advisors to Greece (1947), the Marshall Plan (1948), the Berlin Airlift (1948), and the establishment of NATO (1949). Whatever advice Reinhard Gehlen may have given in 1945-49, it was these actions that decided the fate and freedom of Europe west of the Iron Curtain.

I do not understand the basis of Mr. Silva's views about the CIA in the post World War II years, but ADIV is an excellent book. It is not history, but a book that reads very well, and it is a thriller of high literary quality. I read most of it during a seven-hour flight and recommend it in spite of my reservations described in the previous paragraph.

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“I deal with the real world, not the world as I would like it to be.”

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2018

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“A Death in Vienna” is Daniel Silva’s 4th book in his Gabriel Allon series, and #s 2-4 form their own sort of mini trilogy dealing with the “unfinished business of the Holocaust”. The aftermath of the horrors of the Nazis, the anti-Semitism they stirred up, and its place in our current world was the subject of those three books, and “A Death in Vienna” is the best of the three.
This text, like the others in the series follow the exploits of art restorer and reluctant Israeli agent Gabriel Allon and although the tried and true formula for the series is present here, of the five books in the series I have read thus far this one is the most cerebral. The truths and horrors it presents are chilling when one considers that anti-Semitism is openly flaunted at times in the halls of the United Nations today.
Mr. Silva used real life events (such as the Birkenau Death March, and the efforts of Bishop Hudal to aide fleeing war criminals) and Holocaust survivor’s testimony to very disturbing effect in this novel, more so than in his previous. A harrowing chapter that details the Birkenau Death March is sobering and necessarily unpleasant reading. He manages to capture the essence of the Nazi’s motivation for this ridiculous last-ditch effort to hide the facts of the Holocaust and the long lasting effects on those who survived it.
The Gabriel Allon series is quick page turning reading, and I enjoy them from time to time. I will pick up the fifth book in the series soon.

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Deveria estar no cinema!

Reviewed in Brazil on May 12, 2021

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Leio todos do Gabriel Allon

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Brigitte

Livre d’espionnage basé en partie sur des histoires réelles

Reviewed in France on April 15, 2023

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Bien écrit, bien recherché, excellent pour des gens qui s’intéressent dans la chasse des criminels du Holocaust. J’ai beaucoup aimé ce livre, un peu trop long.

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Raghav Menon

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Reviewed in India on April 22, 2021

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Well written and interesting book

Victor Taylor

The art of intrigue

Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2020

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Three years ago, Daniel Silva was a recommended author by a friend, who we were staying with on a kibbutz, whose son's name happens to be Alon. Since then I have read the entire collection of Gabriel Allon's heroic intrigues since then. I have enjoyed every one of them. My first and only visit to Israel and these stories help inform my sense of anxiety about the prospect of peace in the middle east.

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Very good

Reviewed in Germany on March 28, 2016

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I really enjoyed reading this thriller. At the beginning I was skeptical because there was a lot of description and very little action, but it turned out to be a very thrilling and exiting book.
There is only one thing I didn’t like. That was the depiction of Austria as a place full of Nazis. I live in Vienna and as far as I’m aware of we do not have a nazi-sheltering government or justice. Of course there are some far-right groups, but that is not a problem that is existing exclusively in Austria and Germany (KKK in the US?).
Nevertheless, I really liked a death in Vienna and I will keep on reading the Gabriel Allon series!

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