

The Rembrandt Affair
Author: Daniel Silva
Series: Gabriel Allon Series #1
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Abridged: 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/23/2010
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Daniel Silva
Series: Gabriel Allon Series #1
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Abridged: 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/23/2010
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Michigan born author, Daniel Silva has had a most interesting career before he made the decision to follow his dream of becoming a novelist. He left his pursuit of a master's degree in International Relations when he was offered a temporary position with United Press International in 1984 to help cover the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. He joined UPI later that year as a full time correspondent. His job eventually took him to the Middle East, where he met his future wife, Jamie Gangel who was working as an NBC Today Show Iraq - Iran War Correspondent. They were married in late 1987. Silva returned to Washington, DC, where he accepted a position with CNN.
In 1995, Silva began his writing career in earnest with the instant best seller, The Unlikely Spy. All of his books have been on the New York Times best seller list, and have been published worldwide. His most successful series was about Israeli art restorer, spy, and assassin Gabriel Allon.
Currently, Silva lives with his wife, Jamie, and their children Nicholas and Lily. It is said that Silva frequently takes his children on research trips for his books.
I really, really enjoyed reading this book. Gabriel Allon's character gets better with each book in the series and of course it is always fun to read about his lovely wife Chiara (who "ate in the same manner in which she made love, slowly and by the flickering glow of candles" - best line ever! hila......more
The Rembrandt Affair is another entertaining entry in the Gabriel Allon series. It follows the same formula as the previous books but there a few beats that are different. The most notable ones beingThe place where Gabriel starts from and where he ends up at, the effects of the incidents from the pr......more
This is the first book of the Gabriel Allon series that I have read--and it was quite a ride. It starts out a bit slow. Gabriel Allon is a first-class art restorer, and he is asked to help find a stolen painting. Allon says that in order to find where a piece of stolen art is going, it is usually wo......more
Installment number 10 - this one - sat well with me, fully meeting my needs for entertaining (and not terribly taxing) airplane-train-and-hotel reading (particularly when jet lagged). To the extent I've made it through number 10 in the series - oooh, as of right now, am I really more than halfway to......more
This was my first Daniel Silva novel and I have totally been missing out! In case you are also in this boat, don't feel like you have to catch up--I followed the action in this book very well. Gabriel Allon is an art restorer/expert assassin. He's retired (from killing), though, and looks forward to......more