Bank Shot: Swiss Banks and Swiss National Character in Daniel Silva's Mossad Spy Novel The English Assassin

Authors

Brian Champion

Keywords

Switzerland, Swiss history, European history

Abstract

The American novelist Daniel Silva examines Switzerland, Swiss banks and the Swiss national character in his Israeli spy novel , The English Assassin, because the state of Israel , and by extension, all Jews, face a perpetual existential threat. A major force in the international thriller literature, Silva has written seventeen novels using Gabriel Allon , an assassin for Israel 's civilian intelligence service called Mossad, as a microscope through which various dimensions of Israel's existential threat are examined.

Recommended Citation

Champion, Brian (2018) "Bank Shot: Swiss Banks and Swiss National Character in Daniel Silva's Mossad Spy Novel The English Assassin," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 54: No. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol54/iss1/2