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The Kill Artist de Daniel Silva

The Kill Artist

Autor Daniel Silva
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2004

Londra, Paris, Amsterdam. Orașe europene transformate în câmpuri de luptă invizibile unde trecutul refuză să rămână îngropat. Considerăm că alegerea acestor decoruri cosmopolite nu este doar estetică; ele subliniază vulnerabilitatea lumii moderne în fața terorismului transfrontalier. În The Kill Artist, primul volum din Gabriel Allon Series, asistăm la nașterea unui protagonist atipic. Gabriel Allon nu este un simplu spion, ci un restaurator de artă care încearcă să repare pânze vechi în timp ce propria viață îi este sfâșiată de amintiri. Remarcăm precizia cu care Daniel Silva construiește această dublă identitate. Șeful serviciilor de informații israeliene îl forțează să revină în activitate pentru o misiune de eliminare. Miza? Un terorist palestinian care lovește în inima Europei. Credem că forța narativă a lui Daniel Silva combinată cu sensibilitatea explorării traumelor istorice — vizibilă și în lucrări ulterioare precum Portrait of a Spy — oferă acestui debut un glas propriu, tăios și autentic. Spre deosebire de ritmul frenetic din The Black Widow, aici tensiunea este psihologică, mocnită. Stilul este cinematografic, cu fraze scurte care pulsează de urgență. Este începutul unei călătorii în care arta și moartea se întrepătrund, definind întreaga operă a autorului, de la The Collector până la cele mai recente succese. Observăm o structură narativă densă, unde fiecare locație geografică adaugă un strat nou de pericol.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780451209337
ISBN-10: 0451209338
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 108 x 190 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază romanele polițiste de spionaj cu fundament istoric solid. Veți descoperi un erou complex, Gabriel Allon, a cărui dualitate între creație și distrugere captivează imediat. Este o oportunitate rară de a vedea cum a început una dintre cele mai longevive serii de thrillere contemporane, câștigând o înțelegere profundă asupra nuanțelor conflictelor din Orientul Mijlociu prin intermediul unei ficțiuni de înaltă clasă.

Despre autor

Daniel Silva (născut în 1960) este un jurnalist și scriitor american de renume internațional, fost producător executiv la CNN. Cariera sa literară a explodat odată cu succesul primelor sale lucrări, determinându-l să se dedice complet scrisului începând cu anul 1997. Este creatorul celebrului personaj Gabriel Allon, iar romanele sale, traduse în peste 30 de limbi, au devenit în mod constant bestselleruri New York Times. Expertiza sa în afaceri internaționale și capacitatea de a anticipa tensiunile geopolitice îi conferă prozei sale o autenticitate rar întâlnită în literatura de gen.

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THE FIRST GABRIEL ALLON NOVEL

Former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon is drawn back into the game to take on a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part in Gabriel's past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into a globe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deep personal passions...

Recenzii

[A] heart-stopping complex yarn of international terrorism and intrigue...A thrilling roller-coaster ride, keeping readers guessing until the mind-bending conclusion." —Publishers Weekly

Notă biografică

Daniel Silva is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The English Girl, The Fallen Angel, 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 and The Defector. He is married to NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel. They have two children, Lily and Nicholas. In 2009 Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.

Extras

By coincidence Timothy Peel arrived in the village the same week in July as the stranger. He and his mother moved into a ramshackle cottage at the head of the tidal creek with her latest lover, a struggling playwright named Derek, who drank too much wine and detested children. The stranger arrived two days later, settling into the old foreman’s cottage just up the creek from the oyster farm.
Peel had little to do that summer—when Derek and his mother weren’t making clamorous love, they were taking inspirational forced marches along the cliffs—so he determined to find out exactly who the stranger was and what he was doing in Cornwall. Peel decided the best way to begin was to watch. Because he was eleven, and the only child of divorced parents, Peel was well schooled in the art of human observation and investigation. Like any good surveillance artist, he required a fixed post. He settled on his bedroom window, which had an unobstructed view over the creek. In the storage shed he found a pair of ancient Zeiss binoculars, and at the village store he purchased a small notebook and ballpoint pen for recording his watch report.
The first thing Peel noticed was that the stranger liked old objects. His car was a vintage MG roadster. Peel would watch from his window as the man hunched over the motor for hours at a time, his back poking from beneath the bonnet. A man of great concentration, Peel concluded. A man of great mental endurance.
After a month the stranger vanished. A few days passed, then a week, then a fortnight. Peel feared the stranger had spotted him and taken flight. Bored senseless without the routine of watching, Peel got into trouble. He was caught hurling a rock though the window of a tea shop in the village. Derek sentenced him to a week of solitary confinement in his bedroom.
But that evening Peel managed to slip out with his binoculars. He walked along the quay, past the stranger’s darkened cottage and the oyster farm, and stood at the point where the creek fed into the Helford River, watching the sailboats coming in with the tide. He spotted a ketch heading in under power. He raised the binoculars to his eyes and studied the figure standing at the wheel.
The stranger had come back to Port Navas.
The ketch was old and badly in need of restoration, and the stranger cared for it with the same devotion he had shown his fickle MG. He toiled for several hours each day: sanding, varnishing, painting, polishing brass, changing lines and canvas. When the weather was warm he would strip to the waist. Peel couldn’t help but compare the stranger’s body with Derek’s. Derek was soft and flabby; the stranger was compact and very hard, the kind of man you would quickly regret picking a fight with. By the end of August his skin had turned nearly as dark as the varnish he was so meticulously applying to the deck of the ketch.
He would disappear aboard the boat for days at a time. Peel had no way to follow him. He could only imagine where the stranger was going. Down the Helford to the sea? Around the Lizard to St. Michael’s Mount or Penzance? Maybe around the cape to St. Ives.
Then Peel hit upon another possibility. Cornwall was famous for its pirates; indeed, the region still had its fair share of smugglers. Perhaps the stranger was running the ketch out to sea to meet cargo vessels and ferry contraband to shore.
The next time the stranger returned from one of his voyages, Peel stood a strict watch in his window, hoping to catch him in the act of removing contraband from the boat. But as he leaped from the prow of the ketch onto the quay, he had nothing in his hands but a canvas rucksack and plastic rubbish bag.
The stranger sailed for pleasure, not profit.
Peel took out his notebook and drew a line through the word smuggler.
The large parcel arrived the first week of September, a flat wooden crate, nearly as big as a barn door. It came in a van from London, accompanied by an agitated man in pinstripes. The stranger’s days immediately assumed a reverse rhythm. At night the top floor of the cottage burned with light—not normal light, Peel observed, but a very clear white light. In the mornings, when Peel left home for school, he would see the stranger heading down the creek in the ketch, or working on his MG, or setting off in a pair of battered hiking boots to pound the footpaths of the Helford Passage. Peel supposed he slept afternoons, though he seemed like a man who could go a long time without rest.
Peel wondered what the stranger was doing all night. Late one evening he decided to have a closer look. He pulled on a sweater and coat and slipped out of the cottage without telling his mother. He stood on the quay. looking up at the stranger’s cottage. The windows were open; a sharp odor hung on the air, something between rubbing alcohol and petrol. He could also hear music of some sort—singing, opera perhaps.

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When a terrorist returns to take revenge - watch out! The first in the thriller Gabriel Allon series.

From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE COLLECTOR

The chief of Israeli Intelligence recalls two former agents in order to eliminate a top Palestinian terrorist. One agent is now an art restorer, the other a fashion model. Ten years before, on a mission to destroy the Arab Black September group, they were briefly lovers. Now their pasts and their enemies come back to haunt them, as the terrorist murders ambassadors in Paris and Holland.

Will the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks be his next target? And what motivates the terrorist? Is it politics, or is it possibly personal? Set mainly in London, but with forays into Paris, Amsterdam, the Middle East and north America, this thriller has all Daniel Silva's hallmarks of strong characters, unusual backgrounds and a page-turning narrative.