The English Spy

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Review #1

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THE ENGLISH SPY is the 15th in the Gabriel Allon series and my first venture into Daniel Silva’s writings. The espionage thriller takes place in many large and small venues throughout Europe, Ireland and England. The story is loaded with a hodgepodge of characters, some significant who need to be remembered, others who enter the scenario for only a short time and are soon forgotten. The prime character, Israeli master spy, Gabriel Allon, is slated to take over “the office” and is also on track to become a father of twins with his wife, Chiara. This should signal a slowing down of his active spy ventures but he is dragged back into the field to lead a mission to hunt down and kill the master Irish IRA bomb maker Eamon Quinn. Quinn is responsible for killing and maiming hundreds in North Ireland and has recently spread his death and destruction throughout the Middle East as well as being responsible for the assassination of an estranged royal princess. To aid him in the chase, Allon recruits the masterful English spy, Christopher Keller, a former British commando and professional assassin who also has a score to settle with Quinn from his evil doings in North Ireland. Overall the narrative is exciting but the scenario drags in places. The story has a lot of padding. It could have been shortened by at least a hundred pages to make it more readable. For that reason I give The English Spy a rating of 3 ½-stars out of 5.

Review #2

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Much as I hate to say it, I think the formula has gotten tired. This story line didn’t feel like Allon’s battle and the thread that tied him to it seemed pretty thin. I’m not sure there is anything left to discover about Gabriel Allon, which is too bad because I enjoyed the complexity of this character for so long. The franchise has become predictable. I am glad that the author hasn’t sacrificed his characters (as authors often do when they have mined the territory so thoroughly). I’m not sure what the author can do with Allon. Turning him into a bureaucrat removes him from the action and he has already suffered the worst that can happen to him before being introduced in the first novel. No reader wants to see him suffer any more. The author can’t start writing “pre-quals” because so many of Allon’s early cases and tragedies have been revisited as he has exacted his revenge over these many novels. It might be interesting to see him evolve into Shamron and start running his own operatives from command central (even though his new responsibilities would place him too high to be involved at that level). First, the reading audience has to care about those operatives and find them as interesting and compelling as Allon’s character was when he was introduced.

Review #3

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I have read every book in this Series and I must say I just love them. Daniel Silva’s writing style is such that you can breeze thru his books, feel that you are right there in the middle of the plot, and find yourself bonding with his characters.

This particular story centers around our hero Gabriel Allon being pulled back into secret service to locate an Irish bomb maker , who just killed a British princess ( shades of Diana here) before he strikes again. As ususal, there were twists, suspense, and mysteries. I also like the manner in which Silva explains the details of an operation which aids in your understanding the reasoning of the characters.

IMHO I say read it, it’s worth your time but I would strongly suggest you start from the first book of the series to capture the feel and have the history behind each of the characters.

Review #4

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I’ve read all the Gabriel Allon thrillers – and reviewed most of them – but I have several serious reservations about ‘The English Spy’.

My main criticism is of the opening section ‘Death of a Princess’ in which a top-flight chef conveniently joins the crew of a luxury yacht in the Caribbean the morning before the divorced Princess – obviously Princess Diana – boards the yacht for a fortnight’s cruise. During that first night there’s a big explosion and the yacht is subsequently discovered by a French navy submersible lying beneath 2000 feet of seawater. There’s also, of course, a missing Zodiac dinghy, a missing chef and a deeply troubled Royal family and Prince of Wales. OK, someone’s trying to send a message. But who? And why?

It’s utterly implausible – and completely out of character with Daniel Silva’s proven skill as a writer.

The opening section would have been vastly more believable had Eamon Quinn (the IRA bomb maker turned chef) simply stayed – using his false Venezuelan passport – at the Paris Ritz hotel on that fateful August night. Security cameras could have recorded him chatting to Henri Paul, Dodi Fayed’s chauffeur and then, a few hours later, an explosion could have destroyed the Princess’s car in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel. The remainder of the book would flow smoothly from that point.

I have another problem with ‘The English Spy’. The book involves both the Russian and the Iranian intelligence services (plus the Russian president himself) and badly needs a prologue summarising the way in which (see  The Rembrandt Affair ) Gabriel Allon thwarted the development of Iranian centrifuges. In addition, that prologue could usefully include a summary of how Gabriel and Madeline Hart (see  The English Girl ) infuriated the Russian president by aborting Russian aims to secure a lucrative oil-drilling contract in the North Sea. Both were enough to put Gabriel Allon (plus the defecting Madeline Hart) on their death lists.

But, unfortunately, that critical ‘what has gone before’ information lies buried in a few casual conversations.

However…

We meet all our old friends from various – friendly and otherwise – intelligence agencies and, for the first time, from the IRA. There’s also several car chases, a number of gun battles and, of course, the obligatory collection of corpses with bullet holes in their head. The storyline is pure Daniel Silva although, in places, it gets both complicated and enigmatic.

‘The English Spy’ fails to live up to many of the Gabriel Allon thrillers and their well-deserved five star rating. For some time a four-star rating was on the cards but, after reading the book a second time, my qualifications and concerns justified nothing more than a three star rating.

Review #5

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This started badly. A typo in the first sentence (!) and several more later in the script, the opening was just way off this author’s normal high quality. The British princess piece didn’t work. I really wanted to like this book but I didn’t. I found the Allon/ Keller dialogue unreal, and many aspects of the plot felt over complicated and contrived. As a long standing user of BA for years, it continues to grate when we are told that our characters travel First Class between London and parts of Europe. Sorry, this is poor editing since it’s only ever been Business Class for years. I like the plot line that keeps Uzi going as head of Office for a bit longer, but I wonder if this series is getting in need of a change? I had saved this for one of my main holiday reads. I liked parts but overall, sadly, I felt this was below par. Sorry!

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