The Marching Season Book

Rereading Daniel Silva's early work has been doubly enjoyable. First, the stories were well written, but more importantly to me was to see how Silva drew from the antagonist, Delaroche, from The Mark of The Assassin and The Marching Season, and parlayed him into Gabriel Allon in the future works. While Delaroche admits to being an assassin, he states on more than one occasion that he is not a murderer. Also, Delaroche has talent as a painter and, of course Allon has the cover of being an art restoration expert in that series and considers himself an assassin, not a murderer.

Finally I, as an avid reader, am thankful that Silva abandoned his Osbourne protagonist in favor of Allon. The Israeli assassin and art restorer is much more interesting than another CIA operative. as far as thrillers go.