From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new summer blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon.
Allon is back and out for revenge – determined to hunt down the world’s most dangerous terrorist, a shadowy ISIS mastermind known only as Saladin.
Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London’s West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread: the French-Moroccan street criminal and ISIS operative who supplied the combat assault rifles.
The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team to the south of France and to the doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that the true source of Martel’s enormous wealth is drugs. And Martel, likewise, turns a blind eye to the fact he is doing business with a man whose objective is the very destruction of the West. Together, under Gabriel’s skilled hand, they will become an unlikely pair of heroes in the global war on terror.
one of Daniel Silva’s finest works House of Spies is one of Daniel Silva’s finest works – and that’s really saying something. It follows the conclusion of Silva’s last book, in which Washington DC was devastated by an ISIS attack, with a string of ISIS attacks in London and Paris.Â
An excellent and enjoyable read. Definitely a 5* plot with many previous characters involved in the plot. An excellent and enjoyable read – but – aren’t they always !
It doesn’t disappoint! My wife is the one who usually writes reviews on Amazon. I’ve pretty much only cared enough on three occasions: Once for a video game. Once for the humane mouse trap my wife made me buy, which I scoffed at extensively until it turned the tide in the Great Mouse Invasion, fall of 2016. And once for this book. I stayed up, bright eyed and bushy tailed for the release, and I wasn’t disappointed. The book is exceptional!Â