Gabriel Allon · Book 16
The Black Widow
- Published
- 12 July 2016
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9780007552351
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Black Widow (July 2016) is the sixteenth entry, 528 pages, preceding House of Spies. Daniel Silva grounds this stretch of the series in the fight against terrorism, one of the real-world flashpoints — alongside Russian disinformation and the rise of the European far right — the later books increasingly draw on.
Its place in Gabriel Allon
The Black Widow is book 16 in the Gabriel Allon series. It follows The English Spy. It is followed by House of Spies. See the full Gabriel Allon reading order.
Gabriel Allon is an Israeli intelligence officer and the finest art restorer of his generation, a man who spends his days coaxing Old Masters back to life and his other life eliminating threats to Israel and the West. Daniel Silva builds each novel around a real-world flashpoint — Palestinian terrorism, Russian disinformation, Vatican secrets, art-world forgery and theft, the war in Ukraine, the rise of the far right in Europe — and drops Allon into it as a reluctant, weary operator who would rather be restoring…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062472342
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007552351