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Investigating the suspicious death of a journalist in technologically sophisticated modern Moscow, Gabriel Allon learns of the machinations of a former KGB colonel whose covert arms dealing business is part of a larger plot to reclaim the Russian empire and challenge the global dominance of the United States. 400,000 first printing.

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Gabriel Allon returns in fine form in Moscow Rules. That is, he is as faithful, competent, and moody as ever as he once again becomes entangled in a conspiracy heâd rather have avoided. One of Silvaâs strengths throughout the series is avoiding black-and-white depictions of issues ranging from extremism to terrorism to love, although thereâs usually a political message at the endâ"and Silva imbues Moscow Rules with such nuance. As the Chicago Sun-Times points out, âSilva just gets better as the questions get harder.â Silvaâs portrayal of the new Moscow ruled by the same iron fist as the old fascinated critics, who also praised his gift for setting, suspense, and action. A few critics quibbled over some stereotypical characterizations and convenient subplotsâ"but still agreed that Moscow Rules is a fast-paced, provoking read.
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The title, as Silva explains in an author’s note, is taken from John le Carré’s trailblazing Smiley’s People and refers to the actual set of guidelines used by Soviet spies during the cold war. To the delight of spy novelists and fans, the collapse of the Soviet Union, paired with the opportunism of terrorists, has meant a renaissance of old-fashioned cloak-and-dagger thrillers. Silva has mined this vein in a series starring Gabriel Allon, whose double occupation as Israeli intelligence agent and art restorer allows him to be thrown into the center of terrorist-inspired tensions the world over and to have a credible cover as a member of the international art establishment. Allon’s work as an art restorer is, perhaps, the most fascinating element in a series that leans heavily on the tired spy-novel convention (dating to James Bond) of yanking the hero—and reader—from glamorous world capital to glamorous hidden resort or village back to glamorous capital, with a few side trips to exotic hot spots. In Silva’s eighth novel, the focus is on the murders of Russian investigative journalists seeking to uncover ties between newly rich former members of the KGB and arms dealers with connections to al-Qaeda. Standard spy fare, but spiked with truly exciting scenes and spiced with Allon’s art expertise. --Connie Fletcher

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Putnam Adult; First Edition (July 22, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 433 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0399155015
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399155017
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.24 x 1.45 x 9.36 inches

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Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, and The English Spy. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world. He serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and lives in Florida with his wife, CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.

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Moscow Rules

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024

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Another great adventure of Gabriel Allon. How does Mr. Silva create such great fiction, just as good as Gabriel paintings. Action that held your attention, hard to put down. Looking forward to his next adventure.

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Carlos

Not Quite as Unpredictable

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023

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The Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva is one of my favorites. The books are always well researched, well written with complex plots. Gabriel’s usual team members usual characters are so well developed that they seem very real. Having read the previous books, this one is a little more predictable than some others. One knows Gabriel will survive for the next book, but this was the most improbable rescue in all the Allon books I’ve read. It was still entertaining and difficult to put down, but the ending was not as satisfying because it only set up the next book.

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024

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Another great story. I love when the team gets together for a mission or on this book, several missions. I think I like the books more now that we know so much about the characters

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Gary Griffiths

Reupholstering the Iron Curtain

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2008

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While other authors of pop thrillers seem to have come off the rails in recent works, reigning master of espionage fiction Daniel Silva is beginning to make it look like he doesn't know how to write a bad book. He's back with another tale of Israeli operative Gabriel Allon that is as relevant to current events as it is entertaining - a non-stop adrenaline rush of the politics of deceit and terrorism, of violence and honor. As usual, Silva's themes are simple: Annon's unflinching loyalty to the survival of Israel on one side, opposed in this case by loyalty to only greed in the form of Ivan Kharkov, a shadowy arms dealer of the "new" Russia, a fictional character based loosely on a real "merchant of death" recently upended by allied intelligence forces.

"Moscow Rules" rings true to current events like all of the author's previous works, and the picture he paints of post-Soviet Russia is indeed scary. Many of the Russian mobsters who ruled during the chaotic 90's following Communism's collapse are still in charge, as are many of the old Soviet guard, only now with respectable jobs and respectable titles holding high places in commerce and government. While the names of the organizations and political parties may have changed, there is little doubt that the new state police, the FSB, has reinstated the brutal principles and principals of the treacherous KGB, while the new National Party's oppressive control of the people is as repressively effective as Khrushchev or Brezhnev - or Lenin or Stalin - could ever have dreamed. It is a land where Russian oil and Russian weapons are making a new class of billionaires, and at least in the case of weapons, where there is little discrimination as to the hands in which the weapons end up. And when a Russian journalist and his editor are murdered after uncovering a Kharkov arms sale to al-Qaeda, Allon is summoned back from his convalescence and honeymoon to thwart the deal.

As expected, the stoic Allon faces down gangsters and criminals while building alliances with familiar faces and cooking up intricate schemes making "Mission Impossible" look about as complicated as an episode of "Friends". Allon moves from cliff hanger to cliff hanger, serving as a punching bag for Russian thugs in between. If there is anything to criticize in this well-researched thrill fest, it the similarity in plot and format to "The Messenger" - substitute "Moscow's" Kharkov for "Servant's" Saudi billionaire and you pretty much get the idea - right down to the supporting cast. Buy hey, the formula works - exceedingly well - so why change it? Like all of Silva's tales, while it is not difficult to predict the finish, it is also predicable that the magnitude of the geo-political problems that Silva illuminates will leave you with a lingering and uncomfortable feeling of fear and frustration - the realization that it will take at least a legion of Gabriel Allons to calm these troubled Middle Eastern waters of today.

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Another Great Read

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024

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Each book in the series is more interesting and exciting than the previous one!

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Tamara Borukhov

An egnrossing, edge-of-your-seat story

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020

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Another fantastic, engrossing, well-written book in the series. This one hits close to home, as my family are the refugees from the former USSR, and we are from Moscow! Whatever awful things you heard about KGB, FSB, the USSR, the current Russian regime, and the almost total lack of freedom there - there are not propaganda; they are all true...

Really enjoyed reading this book, seeing familiar characters, and meeting the new ones. And, once again, Silva's left-leaning views got on my nerves: arms trafficking to the Third World was fine till the said arms dealer threatened the West, and then the West took action, and that is hypocritical. America is constantly accused or interfering in other countries' business, but is has to protect them from the illegal arms dealers?! Make up your minds, people!

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