The Kill Artist

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Tightly written thrillers like The Marching Season have made best-selling novelist Daniel Silva a favorite of readers everywhere. In The Kill Artist, he paints an absorbing portrait of a reluctant hero’s attempt to thwart an old enemy to preserve a precarious peace.

After the assassination of his wife and son, Gabriel Allon retires from his brutal anti-terrorist career and loses himself in his previous cover job: art restoration. But when Tariq al-Hourani, the Palestinian terrorist responsible for his family’s death, begins a killing spree designed to destroy Middle East peace talks, Gabriel once again slips into the shadowy world of international intrigue. In a global game of hide-and-seek, the motives of Gabriel and Tariq soon become more personal than political.

Filled with vivid action and a fascinating cast of supporting characters, The Kill Artist delivers pulse-pounding suspense, carried to a startling climax by the tension-packed narration of George Guidall.

©2000 Daniel Silva (P)2001 Recorded Books

Tedious

Lots of superfluous characters. Talented narrator, but a very slow reader. Good story, might even be true.

I could not stop listening!

If you could sum up The Kill Artist in three words, what would they be?

Gabriel is awesome!

What did you like best about this story?

The sense of loyalty and the need to see something to the end no matter the cost.

What about George Guidall’s performance did you like?

Absolutely fabulous! Can't imagine listening without him reading.

Any additional comments?

Keep it coming!

I kept falling asleep

there have been better Daniel Silva books. this one was okay just not one of his best.

Formulaic

Although George Guidall Makes anything he narrates compelling and fun this one from Daniel Silva is just a little too predictable and formulaic.

Back to start

I love the Gabriel Allon series. I stumbled on to it at my public library but their audio offering is limited. George Guidall is a phenomenal narrator. I only gave this performance 4 stars because his later performances are even better. After I did the few of the more recent stories available at the library I subscribed to Audible for the express purpose of starting at the beginning to hear the entire series. Bravo!

Good thriller but plot bogs down

I am a big Silva fan. I love how cerebral and complex his books are. This one, however as far too extended a plot and tying the story together requires too much explaining. Good but no cigar

The story is excellent and the reader even better

The plot and character development are best in class, and George Guidall's ability to switch voice and accent in dialog is uncanny. Highly recommended story and reader

Very good book

This book has a lot of action and an really good twist at the end.

Riveting!!

I truly loved listening to this book! The narrator’s accents were mostly terrific. He did a great job jumping from American, British, French, Israeli & Arabic accents! The story itself is so engrossing and interesting. Loved all the twists and turns. A true thriller!

Glad I didn't start with the series with this book

Even though this is the first book in the series, my daughter and I had encountered the series mid-stream. We both absolutely loved the later book, the Rembrandt Affair. But this book was much more difficult to listen to. While I still enjoyed the clandestine work meets art restorer portions of this book, the seemingly endless sexual sections really ruined it for me. If I wanted to read or listen to a book that had trouble getting away from the bedroom, I would have gone looking for one of those. But that wasn't what I wanted nor what I expected with this.

Since we have already enjoyed a later book in this series, I am going to give the series one more chance. But had I started here, I would have also ended here.