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Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Beatrice Pymm died because she missed the last bus to Ipswich. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant!,
By HeyJudy "heyjudy" (East Hampton, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Unlikely Spy: A Novel (Hardcover)
Author Daniel Silva has done his usual wonderful job with the book THE UNLIKELY SPY.THE UNLIKELY SPY is an old-fashioned thriller, in the vein of the great spy novels of earlier decades. Set principally in England during World War II--with detours to New York and Nazi Germany--it is a gripping story which keeps the reader turning the pages to see what will happen next. The plot is brilliant in it conception, in its breadth, and in the execution. Silva does a good job conveying what life must have been like in London during those hard years of World War II. His premise is that the Allies had to mislead the Nazis, carefully and deliberately, to misdirect them from expecting the invasion of Normandy, this being "misinformation" in the purest sense of the word. This novel focuses on the British Secret Service (precursor of the service in which the fictional James Bond is said to have been a member) and on exactly how they could structure this deception. There is a great deal of plausible detail, and some cliffhanging moments in Silva's telling. His research is awe-inspiring. Long as the book runs, there are a few subplots and earlier clues that remain unaddressed at its conclusion--or, alternatively, these are tied up too simplistically, too off-handedly, too incompletely, to do anything but cheat the engaged reader. Still, these few blips are insignificant in a work of this magnitude. Daniel Silva has proven that his talents are as good as anybody writing today.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: The Unlikely Spy (Mass Market Paperback)
I am an avid Daniel Silva fan, but my experience has been with the Gabriel Allon series. I picked up the Unlikely Spy over the D-Day weekend, and was engrossed by Silva's ability to draw me back 60 years. The story revolves around Alfred Vicary, a history professor cum intelligence operative who is drawn into tracking down a German spy and accomplices who is attempting to ascertain the pending invasion plans of France by the Allies. What ensues is a classic spy story that held me captive to the last page. I heartily recommend it for fans of early Greg Iles.
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The Unlikely Spy,
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This review is from: The Unlikely Spy (Mass Market Paperback)
I have to say, this is probably the best mystery/espionage book I've read. The intricacies of the plot are numerous - but not difficult to follow. With more than one protagonist, it's almost a question as to who the unlikely spy really is. It also gives a superb sense of time and place in the descriptions of WWII London. I've read all of Silva's books and for my money, this is by far the best of his work, and much different from his later novels. If you like to read mysteries, I cannot recommend this one highly enough.
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