''House of Spies'' is a 2017

spy novel Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device. It emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by rivalries and intrigues between the major powers, and the establishment of modern intelligenc ...

by Daniel Silva. It is the seventeenth

Gabriel Allon Gabriel Allon is the main protagonist in Daniel Silva's thriller and espionage series that focuses on Israeli intelligence. The main characters refer to their employer as 'the Office', although it is not specified that it is Mossad (known internal ...

series. It was released on July 11, 2017 and debuted on the ''New York Times'' Bestseller list at #1.

Plot

Gabriel Allon is now the head of

Israeli intelligence Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, links=no), meaning 'Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations'. is the national intelligence agency ...

, but he has retained the former chief, Uzi Navot, to handle some of the routine tasks while Gabriel focusses on the really big problems. The

Islamic State An Islamic state is a State (polity), state that has a form of government based on sharia, Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical Polity, polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a t ...

is following up the Paris and Washington, D.C., bombings of the previous novel, ''The Black Widow'', with disastrous attacks on London and Paris. Gabriel is in the Paris building when it is bombed, but he survives. He focuses on the route by which arms are being distributed. A wealthy Frenchman from Marseilles whose hospitality empire serves to launder the proceeds of his drug trafficking turns out to be the thread that leads Gabriel and his team to Morocco, where they encounter fire demons, a drug traffic organizer, and "Saladin," the antagonist of the previous book, who is the mastermind of the bomb attacks on Western Europe and America.

References

External links

Daniel Silva - Official Website (Book: ''House of Spies'')goodreads.com
American spy novels Novels by Daniel Silva 2017 American novels HarperCollins books {{2010s-spy-novel-stub