I was wondering how Allon, who is now the head of the Israeli intelligence, is going to provide me with an action packed tale while sitting behind a desk. Spoiler alert - he does not just sit behind a desk. He wants to get Saladin - who has been masterminding a lot of the ISIS terrorist attacks in Europe. There seems to be a connection with Jean-Luc Martel, a successful French businessman and his beautiful art gallery owning companion Olivia Watson. (Got to get that art in there.) So Allon brings back the female spy from the Black Widow and friend to pose as a wealthy couple to get close to Martel; and Christopher Keller is back from the English Spy. Even though he is from England, looks like there will always be connections between the Israeli and British intelligence. We again find ourselves traveling around the continent between Israel (just as a home base for Allon), London, Saint-Tropez in the south of France, Casablanca and other parts of Morocco. We have another set of bad guys in Morocco dealing with hashish that is sent in to Europe through Libya and provides funds to ISIS.
Allon is fascinating to me, as he kills a bad guy and then jumps into a waiting car, and hugs his wonderful wife Kiara. He regrets not seeing his recently born twins awake, as he is always out saving the world. It will be interesting to see if he can find the balance between work and fatherhood. (I just read Silva's biography and he too has twins.)
In the author's notes Silva explains that he finished the book on March 17 of this year - depicting two terrorist actions in London, and on March 22, a terrorist actually did run people over near Westminster Bridge. All the activities in Morocco involving hashish distribution in Europe is also based on fact.
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