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Listen to the radio commercial for A DEATH IN VIENNA
The sins of the past reverberate into the present, in an extraordinary novel by the new master of international suspense.
I will not tell all the things I saw. I cannot. I owe this much to the dead.
-The testimony of Irene Allon, March 19, 1957
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind the bombing of an old friend, but while there he encounters something that turns his world upside down. It is a face - a face that feels hauntingly familiar, a face that chills him to the bone and sends him on an urgent hunt for more: a name, a history, a connection.
Each fact he uncovers, however, only leads to more questions; each layer he strips away reveals more layers beneath. Finally, a picture begins to emerge, but one more terrible than he could have imagined, a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives and into his own personal nightmares. Soon, the quest for one monster becomes the quest for many. And the monsters are stirring….
Filled with sharply-etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy and resonance, this is an uncommonly intelligent thriller by one of our very best writers.
"[A] world-class practitioner of spy fiction…Silva is a skillful novelist who does justice to the often heartbreaking material without exploiting it."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Silva's mastered the art of weaving provocative narrative, espionage and foreign intrigue. Silva's gift is to pressure the reader to read on; to absorb unspeakable truths and to glimpse a James Bond-less espionage lifestyle. Life is shaken constantly, never stirred."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"A masterful and compelling tale of evil, treachery and revenge, again showing why he's at the top of the list of thriller writers. A Death in Vienna goes to the top of the list of the year's best."
--Rocky Mountain News
"Complex, compelling international espionage in the John le Carré vein."
--The News-Press (Fort Myers, FL)
"Cool brilliance."
--Chicago Tribune
"Provocative and deeply satisfying…stars one of the most intriguing protagonists in the genre… A Death in Vienna isn't just a masterfully constructed tale of memory and revenge. It demonstrates that thrillers can be more than entertainment."
--The Miami Herald
"A thriller that's not content to be just a thriller, as it delves into issues involving the Holocaust and its perpetrators and survivors."
--The Kansas City Star
"Unfailingly entertaining…gripping [and] significant."
--The Raleigh News & Observer
"A Death in Vienna completes Silva's increasingly powerful trilogy about the unfinished business of the Holocaust…The ending is haunting."
--The Orlando Sentinel
"Silva's writing is perfect: just enough description to be precise and an undercurrent of tension that drives the action. As always, Allon's cause is justice, regardless of the means, and we can't help but rally behind him."
--Chattanooga News-Free Press
"Silva's intricate plot takes Allon across much of the globe, from Argentina to Poland, from Vienna to the Vatican…Silva writes with care and skill. He has a knack for local color, and Allon, his main character, is refreshingly human-world-weary, given to self-doubt and seemingly always wrestling with an inner demon of some sort."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"An exciting and complex novel."
--Library Journal
"[A] superbly crafted narrative of espionage and foreign intrigue. Action and suspense abound, but this is serious fiction with a serious purpose. Silva keeps the pressure on the reader as well as his characters as there are important lessons to be learned and vital history to be remembered."
--Publishers Weekly
"Silva writes le Carré-style spy novels in which the action, despite careening across cities and continents, retains knife-edge-sharp suspense…This finely wrought thriller reads like an exquisitely suspenseful chess game."
--Booklist
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