How does Madeline Hart’s reappearance from The English Girl add to the complex storyline?ġ1. How is being motivated by revenge different from being motivated by a desire for justice?ġ0. Yet Gabriel says to Keller that revenge “never makes you feel better.” What are the advantages of revenge? What are its liabilities? Why might achieving revenge fail to transform suffering?ĩ. The epigraph from Mary, Queen of Scots (“ No more tears now I will think upon revenge”) suggests that much of the motivation in the novel is revenge. For both Gabriel and Keller, tracking down Eamon Quinn is personal, and “when it’s personal, it tends to get messy.” What does this mean? How does such personal motivation empower their mission? How does it hinder it?Ĩ. How does this detail increase the complexity of Keller’s severe character?ħ. Keller is motivated by the murder of Elizabeth Conlin, a woman he once fell in love with when he was working undercover in Northern Ireland. Why is it so important to Gabriel that Keller be restored to his family?Ħ. Gabriel sees Keller as his “last restoration” project.

What skills make him a viable spy? What behaviors or philosophies will he have to change to make the move from assassin to spy?ĥ. Christopher Keller, a former top member of the SAS’s Regiment turned rogue professional assassin, is now being recruited to return home to serve as a spy for Britain’s MI6. Over the course of the series, how has Gabriel changed? How is he restoring himself in The English Spy?ĥ. What is the role of restoration in The English Spy?Ĥ. In some books, Gabriel is restoring a painting in others, he is a restoring a person. Reminded that he is lucky to have Chiara, that there “aren’t many women who would let their husbands to go to war against the Kremlin in the final weeks of a pregnancy,” Gabriel replies: “It’s part of the deal.” What is the complex and supportive understanding that Gabriel and Chiara share?ģ. How might such a circumstance affect Gabriel as he works another dangerous mission?Ģ. Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara, are a mere month away from the birth of their twins.

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