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# The Defector (Gabriel Allon) Paperback – July 6, 2010

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thoroughly enjoyable
*by T***S on September 2, 2024*

Following the characters was occasionally challenging, but otherwise, well written and suitability suspenseful. Highly recommended. No more words to better describe.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Kill them all," she said.
*by D***D on February 6, 2011*

That's Chiara, Gabriel's wife, speaking on Page 470. "The Defector" a very good story, with lots of tension, and - happily -- with a minimum number of characters and sub-plots. Silva seems to write Russian women better than he does Russian men, but he has yet to give Gabriel's new wife Chiara a credible personality, such a pity.This story is light years better than "Moscow Rules," the previous story on which this one depends.Increasingly, an inordinate amount of words are devoted to bringing the reader up-to-date on the background of the 8 or 9 previous novels featuring Gabriel Allon, Israeli uber-assassin. It's sort of necessary for context, but the summaries, book-by-further-book, become cookie-cutter.There are 2 plot "errors" in this otherwise quite superb and very well-written high-tension, high action story.1. The abduction of the female Israeli secret service agent, resulting from an uncharacteristic lapse in Israeli security, wouldn't have happened even in fiction the way it did. A poorly executed plot feature, though essential for the bigger storyline. It simply wasn't a very creative plot feature.2. The long drawn-out (and so pitifully predicable) conversation at the remote Russian dacha with the bad guy, Ivan, who uncharacteristically allows the "literary distraction," thus giving the good guys time to come to the rescue. I'm so over these "troops-riding-in-at-the-last-minute" shticks! Surely, Silva is more creative than this. He got the players into the jam with abandon; let's see him get them out without phoniness!Silva's apology at the end of the story, reminding us that the book is entertainment and fiction, falls on deaf ears. His politics, world view and sympathies show on every page. The interpretation of actual history reviewed ad nauseam here and in other books are flawed and totally skewed - necessary, I suppose, for the fictional characters to have motivation and purpose. As a result of the historical context and Gabriel's increasingly big history as an assassin, every episode and every story is built upon "personal" revenge and motivation. Rarely is there anything more philosophically over-arching or to give these characters raison de entre. Silva has in a sense invented a new genre: Revenge Thrillers.Suggestion: let's retire Shamron. He is no longer useful to any Allon series stories. He's deadweight. Maybe in the next one, there could be a nice funeral for the old man?Oh yes, one minor point. The scene in Upstate New York, where we see Elena's two children trying to build a snowman in sub-zero snowy cold, can't be done. No one can make a snowman in such temperatures. It's a small mistake, but a little embarrassing.For all my criticism, technically I thought this book was quite excellent. Many times throughout the story, it becomes a genuine page-turner, first class. The writing is excellent. The only problems (as is usual with books like these) are flaws in the plot structure - the concocted "rescues" that stretch even fictional believability.It's a very solid 4 on the Amazon scale.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Could not put it down!!!
*by N***O on August 2, 2009*

When I opened the Defector page on Amazon to write a review, I was shocked at seeing some reviews lower than four stars. I totally loved this book. First of all, it continued a story from his previous book, that was begging for a continuation. Secondly, Mr. Silva knows how to grab a reader and not let go. I could not put this book down. I read in my husband's face all weekend, thank goodness golf was on, it helped with the guilt a little.After so many books with Gabriel, you would think the stories and characters would get old, and not interesting. This book proves the exact opposite. I really just could not stop reading, I had to know what was going to happen. One of the other reviewers said they did not like it, it was obvious how it was going to end. Maybe, but isn't that the fun of a good book, it is the journey you take with the characters and the author that makes the book worth reading?Read this book, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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