What could be better than listening to an audiobook of the latest book by one of your favorite authors, about your favorite Mossad assassin, read by your favorite audiobook narrator? Gabriel Allon returns in the fifteenth book about his exploits as a Mossad operative, now soon to be the head of Israeli intelligence, a position he doesn't really want. After the yacht carrying a very Diana-like British princess is sunk by a terrorist bomb Allon and gun-for-hire ex-patriot Brit, Christopher Keller team up again to find Eamon Quinn, the former IRA bomber responsible for the bombing. This book is a sequel to The English Girl and the Russian Spy/British Prime Minister's mistress reappears as one of the targets of Quinn. While all this is happening, Allon's wife, Chiara, is at home in Israel awaiting the birth of their twins. While there are very brief appearances of the usual characters Ari Shamron, Uzi Navot, Eli Lavon, Dina, Rimona, and Mikhail along with Graham Seymour, head of British Intelligence, this book is really the Allon-Keller show. I'll not give away the ending but I will say it was amusing to see the serious and always focused Allon become a stereotypical nervous dad when the time comes for Chiara to go to the hospital. Now I must wait until next year for a new Allon story.
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