Who would have imagined it? Himself Daniel Silva, a mixture of his predecessors in the Yankee espionage genre (the elegance of Patricia Highsmith and the intensity of Robert Ludlum), has stopped and dined in Spanish territory to take off with his latest international thriller novel.
From a peaceful retreat in Cádiz we are discovering one of those plots in which the past of the protagonists ends up returning to settle old scores. Because once inside the muddy terrain of international espionage, you are never completely free, neither in Cádiz nor in Timbuktu.
But in the case of the enigmatic protagonist who enjoys her pleasant life of leisure in the south of Spain, she is in charge of mentioning that past without weighing the consequences (or precisely wishing them for some reason that escapes us from the beginning).
The biography of this lady, French to be precise, is introduced in a bygone time in which she faced her particular tragedy by the simple fact of falling in love with one of those guys who walk a tightrope, a spy who moved around mission to mission and that she faltered with her lover, to the point of conceiving a son finally taken away.
It is not surprising then that the woman seeks revenge for events that even today steal her sleep and for whose resolution she wants to put the last thing that remains of her life.
She knows that what she writes will splatter a Soviet Union that knew how to infiltrate more than a spy a fundamental confidant for a long-term project in which, if the spy ends up gaining the trust of the enemies of the Russian homeland, the heirs of the KGB may end up conquering the world in the most silent way.
The testimony of the mysterious woman reaches Gabriel Allon, Silva's already emblematic character, behind whose back the shadow of the Mossad always looms. Gabriel's mission will focus on revealing that infiltrator from the darkest Russia who is sinisterly approaching the end of his mission. Everything that was expected of him has been fulfilled and now he is only one step away from conquering the world ...
A story that is linking the fascinating days (at least in the distance), of the Cold War, with some new current days that point to that same icy relationship of dark intentions and evil interests on both sides of the world.
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