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Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Daniel Silva Interview
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 1:01 AM
JWC was listening very closely.

The transcript is here. The podcast is in three parts.  Part 1 is here.  Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Aspiring writers should pay very close attention to Silva's discipline.

Silva is a very entertaining, yet very serious writer who is also an artist, capable of making the thriller into a vehicle for important lessons.  Do yourself a favor, and order all of the Allon novels, and begin at the beginning with The Kill Artist.  The order in which to read them:

  • 2000 The Kill Artist
  • 2002 The English Assassin
  • 2003 The Confessor
  • 2004 A Death in Vienna
  • 2005 Prince of Fire
  • 2006 The Messenger
  • 2007 The Secret Servant
  • 2008 Moscow Rules



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    NeoConScum writes: Thursday, July, 31, 2008 9:09 AM
    Every Allon Book A Winner...
    I'm currently midway through "Moscow Rules" and loving it. My favorite of the series, so far, "A Death In Vienna."

    I've had the pleasure of corresponding some with Mr.Silva and his wife, Jaime Gangel, who tends to answer his mail when he's immersed on a project. They are Stand-Up people.

    Hugh, I knew next to nothing about highest-level art restoration and, thanks to Gabriel's love and 'cover', have learned alot of fascinating things.

    Allon's Backstory as having been the main Israeli Assassin in the Wrath of God operation against the Palestinian-Black September-Fatah '72 Olympics Butchery. Great example for Americans on how to deal with True Evil:*KILL IT.

    *The Left-Lib-Nitwit section here would find those Israeli methods--and, I pray, OURS, as well--most insensitive, unfair and nose wrinkly. Which has always told me what I need to know about them.

    BA-DA-BOOOOOOOOM! Like Dat.
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    Patriotic Liberal writes: Thursday, July, 31, 2008 8:28 AM
    Is he a serious writer
    ..like Jack Bauer is a serious fictitious character--or at least, "serious" enough to be treated by the Bush Admin as a template for strategic action. Sheesh.
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