Listing all of the good things about this one would take a long time, so I'll just point out the two disappointments, both of which come near the end. When Allon's wife is targeted as payback for events that took place in the last book, Gabriel is once again drawn back into a world and a life that he continues to desperately want to put behind him. The setting for the bad guys is once again Russia, and the main thorn in the Israeli side is one of those mega-rich "new Russian" types who have benefited-by any means necessary-from Russia's new economy and the various Wild West-like aspects of it. This ninth outing for the Israeli art restorer and spy is every bit as good-if not better-than its predecessors. Generally speaking, it's safe to say that a few hours spent with Daniel Silva and Gabriel Allon will be hours well spent. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. It will take Gabriel from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world's most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. Promise me I won't end up in an unmarked grave. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. He also knows he made a promise.ĭo you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism.
British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better.
The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel's life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican.
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