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A Great ThrillerA fast paced story of Vatican intrigue, with the Pope and other lives hanging in the balance. Great characters that are easy to relate with. Accurate in Roman Catholic detail. This is the best of the series thus far.
Always enjoy this author for the page turning story (I read 1/2 of it today). It's not going to win literary awards but I enjoy learning more about the character Gabriel Allon and his cover as an art restorer. Interesting story focusing on the involvement of the Catholic Church in WWII and the persecution of the Jewish population in Italy. I have read the latest books in this series and now return to the beginning. Looking forward to reading the next one in the series.
Excellent Intellectual Intrigue - 4 Gabriel Allon is not the typical spy and assassin. I have enjoyed the intelligent tone of these books and the complex political, social and racial matters the stories discuss. The third installment of the series continues in this vein.I enjoyed this nearly as much as the last book in the series but the subplot and resolution of the story was far too similar to the previous installment. Because of this, the book lost a star in my rating. Additionally, ther
Book 3 in Gabriel Allon series.An interesting tale concerning the Holy Roman Catholic Church’s involvement, or lack there of, in the treatment of the Jewish people during the 2nd World War.After a period of some 50 years after the wars ending the, now, newly appointed Pope has decided to make available all the highly secret and highly damaging files pertaining to the Church’s involvement in the Jewish solution during WW2.This decision does not go down well with the far right of the church who no...
This is another excellent entry in the Gabriel Allon series. As always, there is a holocaust-nazi connection but this time the Vatican is also involved in it. I was getting the Day of the Jackal vibes when I was reading it.
Thousands of Jews were saved from the Holocaust by Catholic priests, nuns, and laypeople who, out of the goodness of their hearts, offered safe harbor and protection at the risk of being caught and killed by roving gangs of Nazis. These were people simply following their hearts. Imagine, however, the dramatic turn in history if the Catholic Church, as led by the Vatican, had issued an official decree to all Catholic parishes to open their doors to Jewish refugees. Imagine if the opposite had hap...
an outstanding Gabriel Allon story from 2003 ... worth re-reading ... as always, Silva addresses real issues in his fiction, in this case, the actions of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust and their continued refusal to open their archives to disclose what Pope Pius XII ready did and said. Both Pius' behavior and the closing of the archives are a disgrace according to Silva, and I concur.ps ... This is also the story where Gabriel meets Chiara.
I think it's interesting how each book treats one subject important to the world's (or Europe's) Jews and/or modern-day Israel. The last one was about the Swiss banks' role in and after the Holocaust and its plundering of Europe's Jews (along with the Nazis' physical elimination of them), this one about the Vatican and Pope Pius XII. I also liked the general plot of this one, although there are some parts I find a bit hard to believe in. They're details, but still annoying. Like, towards the end...
"He wanted to be a statesman when what the world needed most was a priest."I tore thru this novel. Read it in a day or so. This is the third novel in Mr. Silva's Gabriel Allon series, and the best of the three so far. Don't get me wrong, this is not great literature. However, it is decently written, has a great premise that has some basis in historical fact, and brings together facets of the Jewish state, the Holocaust, and the Vatican. There is a lot of hay to be made from those ingredients.Whe...
Re-read November 2021.In the light of impressions I gleaned from the author's more recent books, which I hope would open new avenues for appreciating the works, I decided to re-read the earlier books in the series. In The Confessor, the back story is that of a conspiracy by certain members of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) during the Second World War to actively support the Nazis in their pogrom against the Jews. In the earlier read, I thought the author spent quite a bit of prose on delineatin...
