The 17th book in the spy, assassin, and art restorer Gabriel Allon series by author Daniel Silva and although I had only previously read 1 to 5 it did not spoil my enjoyment or understanding of this book.Although my favourite and more regular genre is psychological thrillers I do like to mix my reading up a little with more action based novels such as Lee Child and Daniel Silva and I find this series a welcome change.In this novel Gabriel Allon is out for revenge and his target is a madman named...

Maybe 3 stars because it's a reliable addition to the series. But as always with successful genre fiction, the Allon books have ossified into a series of set pieces. Same cast of characters, stories retold. They're curiously bloodless despite the body count; Allon is in a bombing in Paris, suffers major damage and the effect is no worse than a severe headache. Also, there is the familiar pattern of the creation of a deception operation that turns someone into a willing/ unwilling helper inside t...

Typical Silva/Allon thriller. Procedural as Allon and his merry band follow the leads via trickery and interrogation chase a head of a terrorist organization. A continuation of Black Widow.Nothing really special here. A well worn Silva/Allon formula. As novels go, Silva has done better work with the Allon character.

Can it really be true that this the 17th book featuring Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon? Pretty much from the beginning he has held the No. 1 spot on my list of favorite mystery/thriller "heroes." Every spring I start salivating in anticipation of a new installment, so of course I was delighted to get my hands on this one. That many books over the years also brings anticipation of a different sort: How much longer can Gabriel - now chief of Israel's hush-hush intelligence agency, replacing th...

4-5 *s If you enjoy Silva's Gabriel Allon, and or this genre, you will certainly be entertained by Silva's latest. House of Spies is a v well written, absorbing novel about global terrorism, real world geopolitical intrigue, and the various intelligence agencies involved. The role of the USA , now with a different President, seemed to be portrayed in a somewhat different light.Along with many "regulars" I enjoyed the the reappearance of Christopher Kellor's character, and hope to see more of him...

This is another edge-of-your-seat thriller by Daniel Silva. It is about the fictitious character Gabriel Allon, the legendary head of an Israeli spy agency. It takes up where Silva's previous book (The Black Widow) leaves off, with the hunt for the elusive terrorist, Saladin. Like the other books in the series, Allon must work in tandem with spy agencies of other countries; in this case, with Great Britain and France. The action focuses on a drug dealing kingpin named Jean-Luc Martel, who casts

I am going to state what many others have noted in their reviews and that is this is the 17th book in the Gabriel Allon series. I open with that because I want to mention that often in a series when you reach this point the series starts to drag and gets old. Not this series. Not this latest book.At the end of The Black Widow Gabriel at last gave in and agreed to become the chief of the Israel Secret Intelligence Service. Better known as "The Office". In that story a terrorist known only as Sala...

His least ambitious workI have loved Daniel Silva's work for years, and was eagerly looking forward to reading "The House of Spies" as a birthday present. Once it arrived, I found myself having difficulty finishing it. I did continue and completed the book out of loyalty, and not curiosity or interest. I understood the need to have some old characters back, but all of them? This fact alone gave the story a repetitious dry boring tone. Gabriel's Israeli team and Keller were my highlight, but can

There are parts of this book which drag, when Silva feels obliged to tell us too much about what happened in prior books ... HOWEVER, when the action starts, it is portrayed in Silva's unique powerful style and makes a terrific read

House of Spies shares the podium with Unsub (by Meg Gardiner) for best thriller of the year. Silva's book is international, a continuation of the Gabriel Allon series, while Unsub takes the top prize domestically (US).Silva's inside knowledge and research, his well-developed characters, and his all-too-current plot shine throughout. He notes the London attack took place a week after he finished the manuscript in March. In another more-than-coincidence, he identified the fact of the many Moroccan...

House of Spies is book seventeen in the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva. In House of Spies, Gabriel Allon is now the chief of the Israel Secret Intelligence Service. However, Gabriel can not stay out of trouble or sit quietly behind his desk. Gabriel Allon was visiting French Secret Intelligence Service Office when a bomb was detected. In the blast, Gabriel badly hurt started the hunt for the bomber. The readers of House of Spies will go on a rollercoaster ride with Gabriel to find the mast...

…her greatest fear was that Saladin had built the equivalent of a dead man’s switch into the network – a switch that would automatically set off of a string of murderous attacks in the event of his passing.“House of Spies” is the seventeenth in the Gabriel Allon series (and my first) and delivers a complex roller-coaster ride. The book opens and closes in Israel with former spy Allon now head of security, his predecessor Uzi Navot handling the domestic side. The biggest terrorist strike on US so...

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.The Israeli spy and now chief of its intelligence service, Gabriel Allon, enlists the help of Christopher Keller in an elaborate plot to hunt down the man known as Saladin, an Iraqi who is responsible for planning and funding the attacks.It’s a phenomena...