The English Spy
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The English Spy is the fifteenth in
Plot, background, place in series
In an elaborate plot to lure Gabriel Allon into a trap, an English royal princess is killed by a bomb. The princess's life story includes elements based on that of Princess Diana (who died in 1997), as Silva points out in his "Author's Note," but, as he also notes, the bombing of a royal personage on a boat is based on the 1979 death of Lord Mountbatten at the hands of the IRA.[3] The plot is engineered by the Russian government in vengeance for Allon's interference with their plans in The English Girl (2013).
The bomber is a former
The "English spy" of the book's title is Christopher Keller, who was the eponymous English Assassin of the second book in the Allon series (2002), and who accompanied Allon on his operations in The English Girl (2013) and The Heist (2014). In this book, Keller confronts old enemies from his stint in Northern Ireland as a member of the SAS Regiment. At the end, Keller agrees to renounce his life as an expatriate gun-for-hire and join MI6. Gabriel Allon becomes the father of twins and is on the verge of becoming the director of the Israeli Intelligence Services.
References
- ^ a b "Daniel Silva On 'Double-Edged Sword' Of Writing An Israeli Spy Protagonist". NPR. 2015-06-27. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ^ "Best Sellers". New York Times. 2015-07-19. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- ^ See also "Daniel Silva talks about new thriller 'The English Spy'". Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ^ Mike Barnicle, "Mike Barnicle with best-selling novelist Daniel Silva on Morning Joe (1 July 2015)". See also Silva's "Author's Note" to The English Spy.
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