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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
There is nothing much more I can say when it comes to this author and this series. It is by far the most intelligent and worthy series in thriller fiction. There is a comfort to Silva's writing. His characters breathe and bleed and sorrow and joy. The English Spy is the 14th in the Gabriel Allon series, and the 4th with Christopher Keller, first experienced in The English Assassin. Keller needs his own series. He is a very complex and fascinating character.
In this entry of the series, we are taken into the depth's of Keller's past and an old enemy from his days during the Troubles in Ireland. Eamon Quinn is that enemy and a thoroughly destestable human being with ties to the death of Gabriel's son years before. Allon and Keller join forces to find him and stop his reign of terror for good. But, all is not as straight forward as it seems with duplicity, moles in MI6, a recent defector and the death of a Russian spy in a snowy wood from a previous Allon novel. Revnge is the motive of this book in more ways than one. Couple this with the impending arrival of Gabriel's twins and his taking over of the Office, makes this a very rich and full work.
Silva is very prescient with his writing and very engaged when it comes to our world and the evils in it.
I promise you. Start your reading of Silva with The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon #2) and you will be hooked.
In this entry of the series, we are taken into the depth's of Keller's past and an old enemy from his days during the Troubles in Ireland. Eamon Quinn is that enemy and a thoroughly destestable human being with ties to the death of Gabriel's son years before. Allon and Keller join forces to find him and stop his reign of terror for good. But, all is not as straight forward as it seems with duplicity, moles in MI6, a recent defector and the death of a Russian spy in a snowy wood from a previous Allon novel. Revnge is the motive of this book in more ways than one. Couple this with the impending arrival of Gabriel's twins and his taking over of the Office, makes this a very rich and full work.
Silva is very prescient with his writing and very engaged when it comes to our world and the evils in it.
I promise you. Start your reading of Silva with The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon #2) and you will be hooked.
I'm sure this is a great book, but I read it to comply with my last category for Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge at the end of the year and I rushed through it so that I could read something I felt like reading.
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a good one! Some of its predecessors seemed a bit rote.
I am a fan of Daniel Silva! I have listened to all the Gabriel Allon books, the narrator is fabulous. The characters are interesting and I like how he weaves the characters from all parts of his life together.
Expert espionage plotting and solid literary writing in the latest entry in the art restorer/assassin Gabriel Allon series. This one leaps from the Caribbean to Ireland, London, Iran in Moscow as Allon investigates the explosion of a luxury yacht that kills a member of the British royal family. Stronger characterization of some of the secondary characters would have made plot twists more dramatic and satisfying.