What was most disappointing about Daniel Silva’s story? So I went back to the beginning and was horribly disappointed. I listened to a newer work by Silva and loved it. Would you try another book from Daniel Silva and/or George Guidall? Although he draws some of his accents from his 'generic' bag, he uses a pretty credible French accent for this audiobook.

George Guidall, as always, does an excellent job narrating 'The Kill Artist.' He has a lovely, warm, mature voice, that he can adapt into many different characters, including female characters. As some previous reviewers have noted, 'The Kill Artist' has some pretty dark aspects to it - don't buy it for light escape fiction - but it does offer some intriguing, disturbing, and surprisingly fair-minded insights into current headlines and the human psychology behind them. Whether or not these novels suit one's taste in fiction, one cannot deny the deep, penetrating intelligence and profound, cynical knowledge of world events and human nature that emanates from all of Daniel Silva's novels. Now he writes compelling novels about an Israeli Mossad assassin (although, curiously, the Mossad is never mentioned in any of his Gabriel Allon novels - it is just called 'the Office'), in which we learn more than we may have ever wanted to know about the Holocaust, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, international politics, and recent world history.

Raised in a devoutly Catholic family, he converted to Judaism in adulthood, as a result of his marriage. and getting so much more out of it than I did the first time 'round.) Author Daniel Silva is a pretty complex character, himself. Now, I am enjoying going back and listening to the series in the proper order. (In fact, I did just that, not knowing any better at the time. Although Daniel Silva does a good job summarizing all that you need to know for each successive episode, you will still miss out on the richness of this series if you pick it up in the middle. The Gabriel Allon character has a lot of complexity, as do the plots of all his adventures. None-the-less, I still recommend that anyone wishing to listen to the subsequent Gabriel Allon novels should start here, with 'The Kill Artist,' and then listen to the novels in sequence. In fact, I think that each entry gets better than the last one, reflecting the growing skill of the author. Yes, the series gets better as it progresses: 'The Kill Artist' is not its best entry. 'The Kill Artist,' published in 2000, introduces us to Daniel Silva's popular Gabriel Allon series.

The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva