Part-description taken from Silva's official website:
I will not tell all the things I saw. I cannot. I owe this much to the dead. - The testimony of Irene Allon, March 19, 1957
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind the bombing of 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 and sends him on an urgent hunt for more: a name, a history, a connection.
Praise taken from Silva's official website:
"Silva's writing is perfect: just enough description to be precise and an undercurrent of tension that drives the action. As always, Allon's cause is justice, regardless of the means, and we can't help but rally behind him." --Chattanooga News-Free Press
I hope that the above part description of the book gives you enough of an allure into finding out who that face is, what Irene Allon is not telling and of course, the next chapter of Allon's double life! I shan't say anything more.
The last book to wrap up the Holocaust trilogy, The Death in Vienna is captivating yet heart-wrenching. Although in my opinion it is a touch predictable, it is, as usual, skilfully and brilliantly written. If you still have not picked up this book, I highly recommend that you do so as soon as. However, a woman's job is never done because I have several Gabriel Allon books to get through before my trip to France! I'm stepping on it!
Thanks to the superb Cambridge Central Library for the loan of this book.
Rating: 4/5 (Entertained)
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