A bookish crush...

Art restorer.  Israeli spy.  Assassin.  Gabriel Allon has a unique gift for languages, a remarkable talent with a paintbrush, and an unmatched ability to raise a gun and fire in the blink of an eye. Others in the intelligence community call him 'legendary'. The son of a holocaust survivor with the soul of an artist ... a soul haunted by the memory of those he's killed ... Gabriel is complicated, honorable, and relentless. If it sounds like I'm gushing, I am. Gabriel Allon is one of my most favorite characters ever written. In fact, I have a bit of a bookish crush on him. And not just because of his green eyes.

"Gabriel had been cursed with an exaggerated sense of right and wrong. His greatest professional triumphs as an intelligence officer had not come by way of the gun but through his unyielding will to expose past wrongs and make them right. He was a restorer in the truest sense of the word."

Daniel Silva has written 14 Gabriel Allon novels. While it's best to read them in order, know that the first one in the series, The Kill Artist, isn't quite as good as the three novels that follow it. My personal favorites are The Confessor, Death in Vienna, The Secret Servant, and The Rembrandt Affair. Such amazing reads about an amazing character!

"...no quest for a stolen masterpiece had ever begun
in quite the same way."

 Who do you have a bookish crush on?