Another winner from Gabriel
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I love reunion romances, and this one doesnt disappoint. I fell in love with Colt and Zee right from the start. They are wonderful characters who stay with you long after you read THE END. Their touching story hits you in the heart, and you cant stop turning the pages to find out if they can find their way back to each other. I highly recommend this story to anyone who loves a great read. I loved it, and this is my favorite story from Ms. Gabriel yet!
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This latest book in the Gabriel Allon Series by this author, is another adventure in the world of a secret spy for the Israeli government who, pays his rent by being a restorer of fine art.  Gabriel is now working on a masterpiece by Caravaggio at the Vatican.

A curator in the antiquities division of the Vatican has fallen to her death in St. Peter's Basilica and Gabriel has been asked to take on the task of finding out if she jumped or was pushed.  Gabriel has tried many times to get away from the Israeli Intelligence Service, but like the Godfather, everytime he thinks he has escaped, they pull him back.  He is asked by the Pope's Private Secretary to look into the death and see what he can find out.  How do you say no to the Pope?  On top of everything else, the Pope wants it done discreetly!!

Gabriel discovers that the curator was investigating some of the origins of the Vatican's antiques and had made some headway into some underhanded deals that would make a lot of trouble if he/she was found out.  Gabriel, his wife and his cohorts from the Intelligence branch of the Israeli government are on the trail of the culprits that include a criminal who is married to a friend of Gabriel's and that makes it a little bit dicey for all the investigators.

This plot will seem extremely alike to all of Silva's avid readers of Allon books as he is dragged into a plot with his team of experts again.  You'd like to tell him that if he wants to get away from spying, he just has to change his name and move to another country and even then, probably wouldn't get away.  The story moves about from Italy, to France, to Germany and back again with an older Gabriel who is still sharp as a tack and a man that you would definitely want on your side in a fight.  Silva books are snatched off the shelves in droves and fans wait impatiently for the next one.

My very favorite is his first book The Unlikely Spy, I would very much like to see another book in that genre from Silva.  It was and is fantastic.  I'll say again, The Fallen Angel is a great story with expert writing, plotting and characterization.  Allon and his creator, Silva are supermen with super brains but, it seems that Gabriel's past will come back to haunt him for many books to come.
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I LOVE the Gabriel Allon books.  Silva always throws in twists and turns that keep me up reading.  His characters are fully developed and true to life with their quirks and faults.  If you like suspenseful books, read Daniel Silva.
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I love Naima Simone books!  Gabriel was a terrific way to leave your everyday life and view it from the world of a a man mired in losses from his past and his attempt to move forward to the future that awaits him if only he will take the chance. This book had such in depth character development of the h/h that it was as if you knew them personally.  Lots of secrets, lots of deception and you see the lengths that people will go to to both run from the truth and bring it to light. Good read and HOPING there will be stories on Gabe's 3 best friends. One angel isn't enough!
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The previous book was one of my best read in 2011. This one, Gabriel's Rapture, will make it to the best of 2012. I love how the author combines a great story plot with so much details on literature and art. I enjoyed seeing how the main protagonists evolved between both books. It is a book I would recommend to close friends and family, without a doubt.
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Daniel Silva has done it again. Gabriel Allon and his fantastic crew have solved the mystery of the English Girl'. Gabriel Allon fans will thoroughly enjoy the latest in the series.
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I have several Peter Gabriel cd's and this one is my favorite. The opening track "Moribund the Burgermeister" is a quirky, dark song.  It was genius for Gabriel to put this as the opener as it perfectly sets the tone for the rest of the album. I especially like the Burgermeister's vocals, "I will find out", "Mother, you know your son, when I say I will, I will, they'll be sorry, I'll make sure they're sorry".  Anyways, the strongest track "Solsbury Hill" is next, with Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame on guitar.  If you haven't heard it yet, you're in for a treat, if you have, well you don't need me to tell you how good it is.  This song became Gabriel's signature song, and it talked of his stepping out of the band Genesis to take on a solo career.  It's a victorius song which reminds us all that sometimes life is about taking risks.  Next comes "Modern Love", for me a relatively weak track, as Gabriel goes for the rocker.  "Excuse Me" is a silly kind of four part barbershop quartet song, with Tony Levin providing the expert tuba work.  "Humdrum" is an interesting track, which starts off slow, changes to a sort of cha-cha like keyboards, some Gabriel flute work, then goes into an uplifting kind of synth and piano, with Gabriel's fantastic voice singing "Out of woman, come a man, spends the rest of his life getting back when he can...".  Excellent song.  Next is "Slowburn", another rocker, but stronger than ML.  "Waiting for the Big One" is interestingly a bluesy kind of song, makes me think of Gabriel in a smoky bar sitting at the piano singing. "Down the Dolce Vita" is a classic Gabriel tune which opens with an orchestra then straight into a real rocker.  The album closes with another classic "Here Comes the Flood", which ends with my favorite lines "If again the seas are silent, In any still alive, It'll be those who gave their island to survive, Drink up dreamers, you're running dry".

Pick this album up if you're new go Peter Gabriel's music.  It's all very progressive, yet accessible to the new listener.  I respect this guy very much and recommend this cd very highly.
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I love the Gabriel Allon series!  This one delivers on a well though out plot, great characters and plenty of action.  I had read it, along with some of the early books when they came out.  Missed a few, so reading the whole series, in order, this year.  I am enjoying all the books.  Daniel Silva crafts some excellent reads.
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If you have read and enjoyed the other books Silva has written in this series, you will enjoy this one, too.  My husband and I have read all of Silva's books and eagerly await his next novel due out this summer.
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Another great Daniel Silva novel.  Gabriel Allon is a master at his trade and the suspense keeps you with book in hand until the end.  I recommend this book to all my reading associates as I have the many Silva works.  He is a master story teller.
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I really like Daniel Silva's Gabriel series. I have read many of these books and really appreciate the different places this world traveler and  assasin goes to great lengths to get the bad guys. Nice that there is a little art history in there too
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I have always enjoyed Daniel Silva's books. They are well written with good plot development, good characters, and a believable story. He also exposes the reader to a world, the world of art, that the average reader knows little about, but he manages to make interesting. This is the third or fourth book of the Gabriel Allon series I've read, I may go back and start from the beginning. Highly recommended.
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Finally we find out more about the mysterious Gabriel! If you've read the other Penthouse Pleasures books you'll know what I mean - if not, he has been a secondary character in them and now we have his story.

Gabriel is struggling to find his way in a whole new world after leaving the clergy. He is at a loss as what to do with his life and fighting inner demons about his past and also with his feelings about Everly.

Everly can't resist the quiet man that she has come to know and be attracted to but is there anything more for them than just a surface attraction. Is Gabriel even in a place for more or does he have more to give at this point in his life?

Together (and at one point with some help) they discover together their attraction and explore. Super HOT and sexy - one older virgin and his not shy friend.

Be aware at one point there is MFM action and brief MM. I would not classify it as cheating though as it is all consensual.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
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How does he do it???

The three "English" novels (Assassin, Girl, Spy) are excellent. I'm glad I read them in this order. It's great to follow a a story with a character that Gabriel has to deal with, and work with, across more than one novel. The characters are so well developed. As always, there will be surprises.
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I always enjoy Daniel Silva's books with Gabriel Allon as the hero.  This was another great spy thriller with the added intrigue of involving the Pope and Vatican City.  I also like the way the past is interwoven into the story in a way that one doesn't feel as though they have missed anything if they are a new reader to this series.
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This was a good slice of Daniel Silva pie, and a really good read!  That is why I choose him.  His character,
Gabriel Allon, is one cool dude; he has many facets and always prevails over the really Bad Guys.  He's on
my lookout list.
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This is the first book in the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva.  Allon is the reluctant part time spy working for Israeli Intelligence whose covert skills are the stuff of legend within the small community of "secret agents".  His cover skills are those of professional art restoration, primarily "old masters" paintings and sculpture, for which his talents in that field are world renown.

While this may be the first book (as of this review there are 5) in the series, it is not necessary to read this book first, since the book takes place at a time in the life of Gabriel Allon when he has already forsaken his work as a spy.  We learn about Allon's past and his initiation into the world of spying through flashback and his past is not necessarily central to the story.  Other books in the series take the reader into Gabriel's past just as effectively and therefore you don't really have to start with this book to understand what Gabriel is all about.

Daniel Silva has a true gift for captivating plot and character development.  The characters in his books are self reflecting and you really begin to understand the emotional turmoil that goes with the work of tracking down punishing international terrorists.  This book is an exciting weekend read!  Silva has Gabriel on the trail of Tariq the Palestinian terrorist bent on derailing the peace process.  Tariq and Gabriel are not strangers to one another, as Gabriel is the man who mercilessly killed Tariq's older brother and as revenge Tariq exploded a car that contained Gabriel's wife and only son.  The "bad blood" between these two enemies plays out across Europe and North America in a fast paced thriller that both memorable and very enjoyable.  The surprises and betrayals extend beyond the exciting climatic confrontation between Gabriel and Tariq, and are just part of what makes this book so entertaining.