House of Spies: A Novel Audiobook
House of Spies: A Novel Audiobook
- George Guidall
- HarperAudio
- 2017-07-11
- 13 h 3 min
Summary:
#1 NYT Bestseller
#1 USA Bestseller
#1 WSJ Bestseller
Through the #1 NY Times bestselling writer of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new summer blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon.
A heart-stopping story of suspense, Daniel Silva’s runaway bestseller, The Dark Widow, was one of 2016’s biggest novels. Today, internal of Spies, Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge – decided to hunt down the world’s most dangerous terrorist, a shadowy ISIS about House of Spies: A Novel mastermind known just as Saladin.
Four months following the deadliest attack for the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London’s glittering Western world End. The strike is an excellent feat of preparing and secrecy, but with one loose thread.
The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British style model, Olivia pretends never to know that the real source of Martel’s enormous prosperity is drugs. And Martel, likewise, becomes a blind vision to the actual fact he is doing business with a man whose objective is the very destruction from the West. Collectively, under Gabriel’s competent hand, they will become an improbable pair of heroes in the global battle on terror.
Created in seductive and elegant prose, the story moves swiftly in the glamour of Saint-Tropez towards the grit of Casablanca and, finally, for an electrifying climax that will leave readers breathless long after they change the final page.
But House of Spies is more than simply riveting entertainment; it is a dazzling story of avarice and redemption, established against the background of the great conflict of our instances. And it proves once more why Daniel Silva can be “simply the very best” (Kansas Town Star).