Gabriel Allon: La Viuda Negra (the Black Widow): Un Juego Mortal de la Venganza (a Deadly Game of Revenge) (Audiobook)

from ozzer

Academicians like to debate the difference between genre and literary fiction. The former is usually escapist and requires predictable elements. The latter is more equivocal and unpredictable. Literary fiction is not about escaping reality but, instead, explores it. Neil Gaiman probably has one o...

from repb

Silva is among my favorite authors; as he is to many other fans. I read the Black Widow and was struck of its similarity to several of his other books: A terrible terrorist deed has occurred. An agent is planted inside the belly of the beast, a woman. The plant is discovered - captured - almost e...

from buffalogr

Riveting! This book's about ISIS and the pursuit of it by "the office" It's fiction, but the author prefaces the book with a statement about prescient writing. Natalie becomes an embedded mole in ISIS and takes down a network. That the "spy" networks of several countries can work together is incr...

from labdaddy4

As always an excellent read. No new characters in this one and less involvement by Allon's extended crew. This novel was different in that there was no real conclusion to the story. Obviously it will continue with the primary protagonists doing battle until an end. This story was much darker & pe...

from jmoncton

Gabriel Allon, part time art restorer, and full time Israeli super spy, is about to be promoted to lead Israel's secret intelligence service. But before taking on this relatively safe desk job, he gets called to the field one more time to save the world from an ISIS terrorist group that deploys w...