Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>From worldwide bestselling author Daniel Silva?? praised by Newsday for "ringing new life to the international thriller??"<b>The Kill Artist</b> is a taut and elegantly structured novel about a reluctant hero and his mission to destroy an old enemy and preserve international peace.<br>    Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments. Now Ari Shamron the head of Israeli intelligence needs Gabriel's particular kind of experience to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the peace negotiations in the Middle East. The architect of this plot a Palestinian zealot named Tariq is a lethal part of Gabriel's past so as the two begin an intercontinental game of hide-and-seek with life and death as the prizes the motives are as personal as they are political. The story features a vivid and fascinating supporting cast including the magus-like Ari Shamron a beautiful French Jewish model who is seeking retribution for her family's death in the Holocaust and a marvelously comic down-at-the-heels London art dealer. Set these colorful and varied characters against a brilliant background of political intrigue and vengeance at the highest levels and a manhunt that covers three continents and the result is a smart and electrically exciting global thriller.<br></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Fans of Daniel Silva's well-received earlier novels?? especially <I>The Marching Season</I>?? will  welcome his newest novel of espionage?? revenge?? and Middle Eastern politics.   Gabriel Allon is an art restorer who's persuaded out of retirement by Ari  Shamron?? the crafty Israeli spymaster bent on a deadly mission: killing a  Palestinian agent named Tariq before he can carry out his plan to assassinate an  old comrade-in-arms?? the treacherous peacemaker Yasir Arafat. <p>  Tariq's role in the murder of Gabriel's wife and son draws both Gabriel and  Sarah Halevy?? the beautiful French model whose affair with Gabriel led to the  assassination of his family. Still in love with Gabriel?? Sarah allows herself to  be set up with a cover and infiltrated into Tariq's inner circle. But before  Gabriel can rescue her and