Gabriel Allon · Book 1
The Kill Artist
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 433
- ISBN-13
- 9781440607127
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Kill Artist (2000) launches Daniel Silva's series and introduces Gabriel Allon, the Israeli intelligence officer and art restorer who'd rather be coaxing an Old Master back to life than running an operation. At 433 pages, it's the recommended starting point for the full twenty-six-book arc, since the series unfolds in real time with later books referencing earlier ones directly.
Its place in Gabriel Allon
The Kill Artist is book 1 in the Gabriel Allon series. It is followed by The English Assassin. See the full Gabriel Allon reading order.
Gabriel Allon is an Israeli intelligence officer and the finest art restorer of his generation, a man who spends his days coaxing Old Masters back to life and his other life eliminating threats to Israel and the West. Daniel Silva builds each novel around a real-world flashpoint — Palestinian terrorism, Russian disinformation, Vatican secrets, art-world forgery and theft, the war in Ukraine, the rise of the far right in Europe — and drops Allon into it as a reluctant, weary operator who would rather be restoring…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752847856
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781440607127