As I turned the corner and looked behind me, I sensed someone’s presence!

Oh! OK! It’s just my Mom!

I remember playing as a spy when visiting the downtown area as a young man! Man! This spy stuff is fun!

We have all as reading or playing been in that mode where our senses are heightened, our “world” seems foreign, and our friends could have infiltrated our group!

Little did I know that “Dr. No and From Russia With Love” would so much influence my adult reading life!

Daniel Silva captures the essence of the spy game with every book he writes about Gabriel Allon.

In “The English Assassin“, Gabriel heads to Zurich to restore a painting for millionaire banker, Augustus Rolfe.

Or is he?

Gabriel goes in and finds the banker dead and is arrested for the “murder.”

Herr Peterson, the head of the police department, knows the real truth and finally through government negotiations, Allon is released.

Anna Rolfe, daughter of the dead banker, has to find out what really happened to her estranged father. Gabriel is sent to help.

They are both drawn into an underground world of political power, stolen art, a suicide, and a “hit” is put out on Anna!

You know these types of novels just never get old!

Get “The English Assassin” for yourself!