House of Spies (Gabriel Allon Series #17)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new summer blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon.
A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva’s runaway bestseller, The Black Widow, was one of 2016’s biggest novels. Now, in …

Washington Post
“The novel’s grand finale is heart-stopping, unexpected and deeply unsettling.”
Hugh Hewitt
“The Black Widow probably is the most important book of the summer, no matter who you are or where you live in America.”
Huffington Post on The Black Widow
“A master storyteller.... Silva has his finger on the pulse of modern events and has an uncanny ability to predict the future.”
NPR's All Things Considered on The Fallen Angel
“It’s become almost obligatory for lovers of high level thrillers to read each new Daniel Silva novel as soon as it appears.”
Library Journal
03/01/2017
No title, no plot, no details, but the next Gabriel Allon novel follows The Black Widow, Silva's best-selling book to date. With a 500,000-copy first printing.
Kirkus Reviews
★ 2017-06-22
Gabriel Allon is back in the field.Well, that didn't take long. By the end of Black Widow (2016), spy Gabriel Allon had finally agreed to become chief of Israel's intelligence services. All it takes is a terrorist attack on London's West End—and a whisper that Allon's current nemesis was the mastermind behind it—to get this storied spy out from behind his desk and back into the thick of it. As they track the man known only as Saladin, Allon and his team travel from Britain to Saint-Tropez and Morocco. They enlist the grudging assistance of a glamorous French entrepreneur (who is in reality a drug smuggler) and his partner, a beautiful onetime model. And they discover the Islamic State has plans that go beyond suicide bombers and vehicular homicide. As usual, Silva has crafted a story that feels ripped from the headlines—possibly tomorrow's headlines. His characters are confronting an Islamic State that is redefining itself as a virtual entity as it loses physical territory. They're also fighting against an organization that is shifting its focus from building a caliphate in the Middle East to inflicting casualties in Europe and the United States. This is a less psychologically intense novel than Black Widow, and fans drawn to this series by Gabriel's sideline as a restorer of Old Master paintings might miss the art history. But this is still a riveting thriller, and Silva's writing has lost none of its elegance. He provides readers with just enough real-world geopolitics to make sense of his narrative, and his depictions of the different styles of the world's diverse intelligence services is fascinating as always. What's different in this installment is the sense that the role of the United States is diminishing in the world. Even though the U.S. asserts itself into the search for Saladin, there's a clear sense among the British, the French, and the Israelis that their American counterparts are no longer reliable allies. Another chilling glimpse inside global terror networks from a gifted storyteller.
Minneapolis Star Tribune on The Black Widow
“An exceptional spy thriller, well written and timely, weaving history seamlessly into a sumptuous page-turner of a novel.”
Washington Post on The Black Widow
“Heart-stopping.”
Hugh Hewitt on The Black Widow
“The Black Widow probably is the most important book of the summer, no matter who you are or where you live in America.”
NPR’s All Things Considered on The Fallen Angel
“It’s become almost obligatory for lovers of high level thrillers to read each new Daniel Silva novel as soon as it appears.”
Dallas Morning News
“Written by one of our greatest living spy novelists, House of Spies gives us protagonist Gabriel Allon in his 17th adventure. The novel features Silva’s taut and compelling dialogue and keen insight into the human psyche.”
starred review Booklist
“An irresistible thriller…. The phrase ‘#1 New York Times best-selling author’ gets bandied about a lot (Which list? For how long?), but in Silva’s case, it means exactly what it says.”

Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including The Unlikely Spy, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, The Messenger, Moscow Rules, The Rembrandt Affair, The English Girl and The Black Widow. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are best sellers around the world. He lives in Florida with his wife, CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.

Brief Biography

Date of Birth:
1960
Place of Birth:
Michigan