Gabriel Allon, Israeli spymaster, art restorer, returns in Daniel Silva’s latest thriller, “The Other Woman.”

Silva’s spy novels are somewhere in between the quick-read action of a James Patterson novel and the dense behind-the-scenes spycraft of John LeCarre novels. 

The Gabriel Allon series of novels have plenty of action and suspense but also portray the research, interrogations and waiting. Silva writes a thinking reader’s thriller.

Here, Allon continues serving as the head of the Israeli spy agency though he continues working in the field. It catches up with him this time as Allon and his agency are wrongly accused of killing a Russian defector.

Allon seeks a Russian mole within the British spy organization. A case which elicits the shadow of Russian-British double agent Kim Philby.

Philby is a real-life historical figure. He was a highly placed British agent who was giving England’s secrets to the Russians. Silva brilliantly weaves the real-life Philby into the fiction of his novel.

Silva’s Gabriel Allon novels have been a summer treat for more than 20 years. They continue being a treat with “The Other Woman.”