Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Secret Servant |
| author | Daniel Silva |
| ISBN-10 | 0-141-03695-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-141-03695-3 |
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| date | 2011-Nov-14 |
Gabriel Allon is an art-restorer, officially. Off the record, however, he is one of the best agents Israeli intelligence has. When a scholar doing terrorism analysis is murdered in Amsterdam, Gabriel is sent to his house to make sure nothing linking the dead scholar back to the "Office" in Israel will be found. But Gabriel can not even go out to get some Thai food for dinner without stumbling right into something big. An international chase of very well organized terrorrists starts.
Neither familiar with the history nor the political situation in the middle east, there were many terms and concepts which I did not really understand. Nevertheless, the fast paced story is understandable and interesting to read. But at times it is not quite so clear how Gabriel comes to some conclusions.
