Another Daniel Silva book in a month? Yes, please...At least it´s a good price for ignoring his last year title. His newest, The Order deals with a different topic with a more historical component, but, as usual in Silva´s books, the past and the present are intertwined in a relevant message to the future.
The Order brings the legendary Israeli spy master Gabriel Allon in the middle of a terrific world conspiracy built around an apocryphal gospel - Gospel of Pilate - that may challenge the current interpretation of Christianism, especially towards the Jews. But there is an old secretive religious order that does not want this document public and was ready to go as far as to kill the pope.
Allon, on vacation with his family in his wife´s hometown of Venice, is ready to put into motion all his available resources, as chief of the Mossad, to counter the ancient anti-semitic hatred. But, as usual as in the books authored by Silva from the series - that reached no. 20 as for now - there is more into the story than a good versus evil narrative. My favorite part of reading this interesting and well informed author is to catch up the global narrative and his art of putting things in a long-term perspective. In The Order, he uses the current global circumstances for inserting his characters and their fast forward actions. We are faced with the raise of populism, anti-semitism and islamophobia. All those are going hand in hand, based on an ideology with deep roots into the European history and culture.
I had the book in audiobook format, read by the world acclaimed George Guidall but personally I was not in awe about the interpretation. As I will keep expanding my experience with audiobooks, most probably will have soon new experiences with this narrator and I can thus have a complete picture of his skills and of the skills of a successful story-reader as well.
Rating: 4 stars
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