The English Assassin

Excellent author.

A great story for losing oneself on dark winter nights...

Recommended by a friend in US about these books up to no. 8 at moment all first class reads.

I have become a big fan of his books after discovering him on holiday (someone had left one of his books in the apartment we stayed in) .This one is one of my favourites & I love the intrigue & detail that comes through in his novels I get completly absorbed.

The second in the series these are great travel books . fast moving and entertaining. Two assassins on a collision course, dodgy Swiss bankers, sins of the past. All in all a great read for a wet train journey!

This being number five in the series was a superb read. Have read some later novels but still quite a bit of catching up to do. If novels 2, 3 and 4 are anywhere as good as numbers 1 and 5, I am in for some extremely good reading. Well done!

In the second book of the series, art-restorer and former Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon is hired by a swiss banker to work on an old painting. When he gets to the banker's mansion, he finds him shot in the head and gets arrested by the police. After being released, Gabriel starts investigating the murder with the help of the banker's only daughter, Anna. Both of them find some obscure business deals from the past that a group of powerful people tries to protect at all costs, including hiring a notorious assassin known as the Englishman to stop their investigation permanently. Given the book title, I was surprised by how the Englishman thread turned out to end. It was as surprising as disappointing, because in the end if we took the Englishman chapters off the plot wouldn't suffer a bit. It would be enough to know a hit had been ordered on Gabriel and Anna, and we'd be spared to a superstitious near-mystic assassin figure that turns out to have a strange moral conscience. I also found unsatisfying the way Mr. Silva solved the difficult situation Gabriel was put on near the end. It had happened before in "The Kill Artist" and it happened again here, as the most difficult knots were untied by unlikely actions made by his opponents. Anyway it was a pleasant book to read. The immoral business relations Switzerland had during WWII is a quite interesting theme and the pace keeps us wanting to read the following chapter. +: pace and subject -: the english assassin character is as odd as inconsequent to the plot; incoherent actions have huge implications on how the story ends =: nice thriller story that made me want to read the series' next books

book was delivered in a timely manner and the product met the description, many thanks

With a background founded on real situations, this well written novel will not only attract but also captivate the reader

Lots of twists and turns in different parts of the world. The series with Gabriel Allon is very entertaining. I randomly bought one of the novels while being in Portugal and trying to learn more the language. Now, I started from the beggining of the collection and I'm hooked.

This is my second Gabriel Allon book and I am hooked! The suspense, the amazing characters and the history in these books make them unputdownable! Thank you Daniel Silva! I can’t wait to read the whole series!

Instigante como todos os livrado Silva

Fantástico.come.tutti.i libri di Silva che ho letto. Avvincente, ben.scritto. Da.leggere in inglese, senza.dubbio,.x.scorrevolezza, dialoghi, etc. Xo xx xx xx xx