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Featuring Gabriel Allon as a spy/assassin who works undercover as an art restorer, Moscow Rules explores the world of a rising Russia. The villain is a rich Russian oligarch who is a weapons dealer. The title is based on the Cold War rules in which CIA agents were trained when operating against the Soviet Union, known as the "Moscow Rules ...
At Book Marks, a review aggregator website, the novel received a cumulative "positive" rating based on eleven reviews: three "rave", five "positive", and three "mixed". [5] On Bookmarks November/December 2016 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews. [6]
Unusually for the Allon series, this novel is a sequel to the previous one (Moscow Rules), with many of the same characters, in particular the antagonist, Ivan Kharkov.. The beginning finds Gabriel Allon and his new wife Chiara resuming the honeymoon in rural Umbria which was interrupted by the events of Moscow Rules; Gabriel is again restoring a painting for the Vatican, this time Guido Reni ...
The Moscow rules are rules-of-thumb said to have been developed during the Cold War to be used by spies and others working in Moscow. The rules are associated with Moscow because the city developed a reputation as being a particularly harsh locale for clandestine operatives who were exposed. The list may never have existed as written. [citation ...
Count Rostov was first introduced to audiences in Amor Towles’ 2016 boffo bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow.Now, it’s been adapted into a Showtime limited series and the eponym is played with ...
The novel debuted on The New York Times best-seller list on January 26, 1997; it remained on the list for five weeks, rising to number 13. [4] In 1997 Silva left CNN to pursue writing full-time. Since then Silva has written 26 more spy novels, all best-sellers on The New York Times list.
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