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Confessor, The
by: Daniel Silva

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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: March 03, 2007
Publisher: Signet
Release Date: March 03, 2007
Sales Rank: 2149
Studio: Signet

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In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the new pope vows to uncover the truth about the church's response to the Holocaust-while a powerful cardinal plots his next move. Now, as Allon follows a trail of secrets and unthinkable deeds, the lives of millions are changed forever-and the life of one man becomes expendable...'

Amazon.com Review:
Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva's protagonist in an interesting series about a Mossad spy who doubles as an art restorer, returns in a fascinating tale of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust. Author Silva, a political journalist turned espionage writer, has done his homework on some recently unearthed documents and written a fast-paced novel that will reawaken the discussion regarding whether the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied countries during World War II, and if so, why. Allon remains an enigmatic figure whose desire for revenge against the Leopard, the assassin who killed his wife and child, compels him to put down his paints and brushes and take arms against Israel's past and present enemies. The Confessor is a solidly plotted, well-crafted story that will appeal to fans of Allen Furst, John le Carré, and other standouts in the international espionage genre. --Jane Adams

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- A thriller all the way to the very last page.
This is the third book in a series and Silva finally has done everything right even including a good ending. It not only has many twists and turns but has some great surprises; many of them just when you think you have it all figured out. Each layer as it is uncovered brings more questions than answers but art restorer and sometimes spy, Gabriel Allon keeps searching for the answer to who killed his childhood friend and more important why?

I thought I was well versed on the holocaust but the way Silva interspersed this history as the plot unfolds made it clear how it all happened. It was like there were two stories playing out as I was reading. A must read for anyone that is looking for a book that just can't be put aside until the last page has been flipped.

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- The Vatican as evil empire
While all of Silva's novels essentially have the same plot: a struggle between virtuous Israelis and evil Arabs, this one has the Vatican in its center. Silva, for all his disclaimers, knows as we all should that the Catholic Church is probably the most evil institution and the oldest evil institution in our history -- certainly the most evil after the Nazi SS.
The Vatican and its personnel claim a spiritual power but their power is simply the power of evil domination over ignorant billions of people. The Vatican's collabortion with Hitler in the demise of Europe's Jews is controversial but clear: the Church had no interest in saving the Jews, whom it regarded as the enemies of the Church. And it was correct: the Jews have been hated by Christians for 2000 years because the Jews knew that the Christians had fabricated a Jesus who never existed: a divine son of God dying to save sinners. The real Jesus ... Read More

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- "Bring me the file on The Leopard."
(4.5 stars) The Leopard, an assassin who figures in a number of Silva novels, becomes a major player in this third Gabriel Allon novel, about the passive involvement of the Vatican in the Holocaust and its subsequent denial of all responsibility. Basing the novel on research by scholars like Susan Zuccotti (whom Silva credits in his acknowledgments) into the secret connections between factions within the Catholic Church and the Third Reich, Silva creates a chilling and utterly compelling story about the reasons that the Vatican might have feared the Jews were a threat to its own power and wanted to prevent the ultimate establishment of an Israeli homeland.

Gabriel Allon, an assassin for the Israeli Mossad (in his secret life) and a talented restorer of paintings and sculptures in Venice, often for the Vatican (in his public life as Mario Delvecchio), is working in Venice when he receives word that Ben ... Read More

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- Need An Assassin? Here's My Card
Ben Stern is a Jewish scholar living and working in Munich. On sabbatical, he is murdered while working on a book. With his death, the manuscript is nowhere to be found and nobody seems to know what it was about. Gabriel Allon is called upon to investigate. As the story progresses, Gabriel must uncover a conspiracy in the Curia, learnthe truth about Nazi collaborators, save a new pope's life, and get an elusive assassin known as the Leopard.

THE CONFESSOR is a first-rate espionage thriller complete with convoluted plot, fast action, beautiful woman, and engaging characters. The issue of Vatican inaction during the Holocaust and the opening of papal archives from that period is a real one and provides an interesting backdrop to Silva's story.

My main complaint about this book, and the reason I didn't give it five stars, involves the ending. As THE CONFESSOR comes to a close, everything is tied ... Read More

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