Book Review: The Black Widow by Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva is a world renowned author for penning down spy thrillers for all sorts of backdrop and era, like WW I & II, Cold War, and modern time. His created spy you will find everywhere.

Daniel Silva shot into fame with his spy thrillers like The Unlikely Spy, The Marching Season, The Mark of Assassin and some more. Later he formed a character, rather a strong spy, called Gabriel Allon. How and where did he come from? For that you need to read the series in a chronicle order. The Black Widow is a sixteenth book in the Gabriel Allon series. It was published in 2016.

In this book, Gabriel Allon is a legendary assassin and art restorer, and he is all set to be appointed as the new chief of Israel’s secret intelligence service. But well before that a terrorist attack in parish shakes the peace of the world. And this is the time when is called back into the field for one last time or say for one final task. The task is to assassinate the man responsible for the bombing in Paris. The terrorist is as elusive as mountain breeze, to get through the network laid by him; Gabrial is forced to take the help of a female doctor, who posing as a black widow will have to act as a recruiter for ISIS. They have to get to the neck of that hidden terrorist before he comes into action to attacks next somewhere else. And from there on starts the swashbuckling adventure.

Readers who have watched Tarantino’s movies may find that most of the time Daniel Silva's books bear resembles to his movies. How? Of course not with the themes! Well, with the structure of the story and extended scenes that force readers stick to it and feel the heat of the moment.

The book is mainly in the dominions of representative spy thrillers combined with documentary treatment. So just do grasp a copy of one of these and you won't be disenchanted.

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