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A review by mrwool
House of Spies by Daniel Silva
3.0
Silva is as tight and stylish a writer as ever, and crafts another summer page-turner here. That is enough to earn three stars, but sadly the largely predictable formula doesn't transcend a basic, solid Silva outing. A quick, fun summer read, but nothing special, and unfortunately for us long time fans, showing the tiredness of a long running genre series.
Silva's increasingly rightward ideological bent is still in evidence here, but, perhaps because the White House is no longer occupied by the Obama he so clearly loathed, is less in your face than the utter distraction it proved in Black Widow. So that was a nice change, though it remains a bit concerning the number of folks who seem to gather much of their "knowledge" of terrorism and political violence from the fictional, right-tinted world Silva has crafted with the help of pseudo-intellectual polemics like "Londonistan" (approvingly quoted in a previous authors note) and the op-ed page of Fox News/Breitbart.
Silva's increasingly rightward ideological bent is still in evidence here, but, perhaps because the White House is no longer occupied by the Obama he so clearly loathed, is less in your face than the utter distraction it proved in Black Widow. So that was a nice change, though it remains a bit concerning the number of folks who seem to gather much of their "knowledge" of terrorism and political violence from the fictional, right-tinted world Silva has crafted with the help of pseudo-intellectual polemics like "Londonistan" (approvingly quoted in a previous authors note) and the op-ed page of Fox News/Breitbart.