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The Bargain Nexus - Moscow Rules
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List Price: $26.95
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Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155017
ISBN: 0399155015
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2008-07-22
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Summary: Don't Look Over Your Shoulder. Some One is Always Watching
Comment: Hard to believe but Daniel Silva keeps coming up with plausible plots and actions that just keep getting better. What could be better than to go back to the 'good old days' of the Cold War? Well, with Putin and Bush we are half way there. It is a sad truth that there is only 'managed democracy' in Russia, but Russians like to be told what to do. If it's a question of guns or butter, the Russians have always wanted guns. It's better to be strong and hungry than to be fed and weak.
Gabriel, who is on his honeymoon, is called away from restoring a painting for the Vatican, to meet with a Russian journalist in Rome. When the journalist is killed right in front of Gabriel and Eli, they know they are dealing with professionals who may be better than they are.
It's easy to guess that the bad guy is Russian and an ex-KGB wonderkin. But what is he really after. He's after money, money and more money. He's been selling guns and weapons to African and Asia revolutionaries and dictators for years. But, now he's gone over the line by selling shoulder launch missiles to Al-Quada. So it's time to call in everyone.
Though most of the real action occurs on the Cote D'Azur around Saint Tropez, Moskow gets thrown in for some good killings too. The British, US and French are brought in, and a good time is had by all; except for the dead and they don't have a vote.
Zeb Kantrowitz
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Summary: Moscow Rules
Comment: This is vintage Daniel Silva, riveting and spellbinding from the very begining. His sense of geopolitical timing is uncanny, always preceding the news with his latest novel. In this book he also gives us a glimpse of his sense of humor.
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Summary: A disappointment
Comment: As a fervent admirer of most of Mr Silva's previous work, I was very disappointed by Moscow Rules. Aspects of the plot are virtually recycled from one of his other books, and I find the relationship with the Pope and the Vatican totally implausible. This is a great pity from someone who has created one of the most interesting heroes of modern literature.
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Summary: A typical good Daniel Silva read
Comment: I've read all of Daniel Silva's books. Gabriel Allon still is quite the hero. As always, I've learned quite a bit about Russia in today's world. I recommend this to people who like thrillers, spies, and action.
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Summary: Another Good Silva
Comment: The characters are still compelling and the plot moves right along to the usual ending for this gendre.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the “gold standard” (The Dallas Morning News) of thriller writers.
Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world’s finest writers of international intrigue and espionage— “a worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le Carré” (Chicago Sun-Times)—and Gabriel Allon as “one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He’s playing by Moscow rules now.
This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.
One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealer—and he is about to deliver Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11—and the clock is ticking fast.
Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East—and Silva’s finest novel yet.
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