The Kill Artist (2001) (edit title/settings)

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• Gabriel Allon: Israeli Assasssin and Mossad Agent; part time art restorer.
• Jacqueline Delacroix: Fashion Model, former member of Israeli intelligence. aka Dominique Bonard. Birth name: Sarah Halevy. A Jew from French Provencale. Age 33.
• Tariq al-Hourani: Terrorist
• Julian Isherwood: London Art Dealer, person who helps out Israeli intelligence agents, friend of Gabriel.
• Yasir Arafat: President PLO
• Ari Shamron: Former head of Israeli intelligence.
• Leah: Gabriel's first wife.
• Eli Lavon: Israeli intelligence agent and head of organization that investigates wartime claims and crimes from the Holocaust era.
• Oliver Dimbleby: London Art dealer, competitor with Julian
• Yusef al-Tawfiki: UK-based terrorist reporting to Tariq
• Leila Khalifa: femme fatale
• Timothy Peel: Allon's watcher
• Derek: Peel's stepfather
• Benjamin Stone: Sybaritic British media tycoon and supporter of Zionist causes; loosely based on Rupert Maxwell

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• “The methodology was precisely the same: study the target, become like him, do the job, slip away without a trace”

• “Sometimes people die too soon. Mourn for them in private. Don't wear your suffering on your sleeve like the Arabs. And when you're finished mourning, get back on your feet and get on with life.”

  Gabriel Allon's father

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• I would much rather do battle with a sworn enemy than with an enemy who finds expediency in posing as a friend.”

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• Eli from Planning and the Talmudic Mordecai, the service’s executive officer. There was Yossi, the genius from the Europe Desk who had read the Greats at Oxford, and Lev, the highly flammable chief of Operations, who filled his precious empty hours by collecting predatory insects. Only Lev seemed to have no physical fear of Shamron.

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• the further we are from our last disaster, the closer we are to our next.

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• “Bat leveyha is the term we use for a female assistant agent.

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• Kemel Azouri gathered up his things and slipped out. He was a tall man with a lean, aristocratic build, narrow features, and pale green eyes. He stood out at the Schloss empire, not only because of his appearance but because of his remarkable story.

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• “And the enemy shall know I am Lord when I can lay down my vengeance upon them.” “Ezekiel,”

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• After Vienna, Gabriel leaned on the lessons of his father: sometimes people die too soon. Mourn for them in private. Don’t wear your suffering on your sleeve like the Arabs. And when you’re finished mourning, get back on your feet and get on with life.

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• Do you know the motto of the Israeli secret service?” “I’m afraid I don’t.” “ ‘By way of deception, thou shalt do war.’

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• What his competitors did not know was that Stone, a Hungarian Jew by birth, was also Ari Shamron’s most valuable sayan.

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• David Morgenthau, was the multimillionaire chairman of Optique, one of the world’s largest makers of designer eyeglasses. He was also a passionate Zionist.

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Organizations edit see section history

• The "Office": Institute for Coordination - part of Ministry of Defense. Israeli intelligence headquarters.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by The English Assassin.

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1. Daniel Silva (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Political

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