Fic­tion

Por­trait of a Spy

  • Review
By – October 31, 2011

Por­trait of a Spy is Daniel Silva’s four­teenth espi­onage nov­el, the eleventh fea­tur­ing Gabriel Allon. Sil­va takes his read­ers on an emo­tion­al roller­coast­er ride as Allon emerges from reclu­sive retire­ment in Corn­wall and takes a break from restor­ing an icon­ic mas­ter­piece, drawn back to bat­tle glob­al ter­ror and reli­gious extrem­ism. Like all in the series, this sto­ry is well-researched and reflects crit­i­cal cur­rent world issues. Allon’s usu­al team of experts is reunit­ed includ­ing his men­tor, retired for­mer leader of Israeli intel­li­gence Ari Sham­ron. Their mis­sion, to track down and assas­si­nate the head of the net­works per­pe­trat­ing bomb­ings in mul­ti­ple Euro­pean cities, pro­ceeds with the high tech coop­er­a­tion of the US, the UK, and Israel. Once again Sil­va edu­cates and enter­tains his read­ers through an inge­nious thriller.

Miri­am Brad­man Abra­hams, mom, grand­mom, avid read­er, some­time writer, born in Havana, raised in Brook­lyn, resid­ing in Long Beach on Long Island. Long­time for­mer One Region One Book chair and JBC liai­son for Nas­sau Hadas­sah, cur­rent­ly pre­sent­ing Inci­dent at San Miguel with author AJ Sidran­sky who wrote the his­tor­i­cal fic­tion based on her Cuban Jew­ish refugee family’s expe­ri­ences dur­ing the rev­o­lu­tion. Flu­ent in Span­ish and Hebrew, cer­ti­fied hatha yoga instructor.

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