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Gabriel Allon is the main character in Daniel Silva‘s espionage and thriller series that focuses more on Israeli intelligence. Daniel Silva created Gabriel Allon who plays the main role in his spy and thriller novels that focus on the Intelligence of Israel. The career of Allon in Daniel Silva’s book began in 1972.

During that time, Ali Shamron plucked Gabriel Allon and several other people including Eli Lavon were pulled away from their civilian routine life and asked to participate in the Operation titled Wrath of God. The operation was being conducted to avenge the murder of several Israeli athletes in Munich. The operation involved hunting down as well as getting rid of all the people who were responsible for killing the athletes. The operation is mentioned in the novels of Daniel Silva all through the life of the main character, Allon.

As per the writer Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon is the Sabra (a Jewish who’s born in Palestine). Having been raised as Jewish, Allon’s first official language is German. Having been brought up in the secular home that’s situated in the Jezreel Valley, Gabriel Allon was not acquainted with Shabbat candles at all. He only came to know much about them when he was an adult. Throughout his whole series of books based on Gabriel Allon, the novelist has established that Gabriel Allon’s mother had managed to survive the grim Holocaust. The novels do not throw much a lot of light onto Allon’s father. The reader just knows that Allon’s father was brought up in the city of Munich, survived the holocaust like his mother and then died in a 6-day war.

While the books don’t have a set timeline, you can often tell what is going based on some of the real world events that take place in the books. The books have become highly influential as they have been discussed on major news programs in comparison to what is happening in the real world.

Daniel Silva has released several novels in the series that feature Gabriel Allon. The Kill Artists which was released in 2000 is the first novel to feature Allon. The character continued in the second book of the series, The English Assassin which released in 2002. The Confessor was later released in 2003.

BEST GABRIEL ALLON BOOKS

The Kill Artist is the first book in the series. Immersed in the quiet and meticulous life of art restorers, Gabriel Allon, former Israel’s intelligence operative keeps his past experiences well behind him. However, he is now being called back in the game. He is teamed up with an agent who is constantly hiding behind her mask as a beautiful model. Their target is a cunning terrorist who was on one last murder spree, a Palestine zealot who played the dark part in Gabriel Allon’s past. In the end, what started as a manhunt eventually turns into a globe-spanning duel that’s fueled by both deep personal passions and political intrigue.

The Messenger is another amazing book in the series. This is the sixth book in Gabriel Allon series. On the trail of a lethal al-Qaeda operative, Allon returns in this spellbinding story of power, revenge and deception by the Number One New York Times bestselling “practitioner of spy fiction.”

Gabriel Allon, a spy and art restorer is about to experience the greatest challenge in his entire life. A certain al-Qaeda suspect is murdered in London and photos are found on his personal computer—photos that lead the Israeli intelligence department to suspect that al-Qaeda is actually planning one of its most brave attacks ever; an attack that is aimed straight at the heart of Vatican. Gabriel Allon along with his colleagues find themselves in a lethal duel of wits up against one of the dangerous men across the world—a hunt that’s expected to take them across the whole of Europe to the Caribbean islands and back. However, for them, there might not be enough of anything: enough facts, enough time, enough luck. All that Gabriel Allon can do is to set up his trap and pray that he isn’t the one who will be caught up in it.

A Death in Vienna: This is part of Allon’s “accidental trilogy” that covers the Holocaust and is some of the most personal writing in the series. This series within the series covers some of the dirty deeds that the Vatican did during post-World War II concerning the Nazis. Specifically, the Vatican “ratline” which smuggled high ranking officers out of Europe after the war.

That is a tough thing to reconcile and there have been many debates on whether or not Pius XII should have spoken out about this matter. One of the worst aspects is perhaps that Franz Stengel, who was in charge of one of the death camps, was smuggled out through these means. This book is clearly written with a lot of research done into the history of the Holocaust beforehand.

That said, it manages to stay true to the character as Gabriel’s mother was a survivor of the Holocaust. The events that his mother went through clearly had an effect on the character and he has a sort of second-generation survivor syndrome that he is forced to deal with. The entire trilogy within the series is a great weird, but this one might be the best.

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Those who have read Gabriel Allon series have also shown interest in the “Myron Bolitar” series by Harlan Coben. This is one the most popular series that features Myron Bolitar, a sports agent. Even though he isn’t a private eye within the traditional sense, he ventures in some pretty familiar turf in the act of defending and protecting his clients’ interests. The “Mitch Rapp” series by Vince Flynn is also loved by Gabriel Allon fans.

What Is The Next Book in The Gabriel Allon Series?

There doesn't seem to be an upcoming book in The Gabriel Allon Series. The newest book is A Death in Cornwall and was released on July, 9th 2024.

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