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Violence
A lot
Moderate-to-strong violence — ISIS terrorism; attacks; undercover infiltration
Language
Some
Mild-to-moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The ghost — an ISIS planner no one has ever identified; Gabriel's undercover recruit going into the network; the attack being planned
What this book is about
ISIS is planning a massive attack on the West using a planner with no known identity. Gabriel Allon recruits a female psychiatrist — a woman ISIS will trust — to go undercover inside the network and identify the ghost. The Black Widow is the sixteenth Gabriel Allon novel — Silva's most ISIS-focused, written during the height of the caliphate's terror.
Notes for sensitive readers
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ISIS — the caliphate at its height; attacks depicted
A woman going undercover inside an ISIS network
Sixteenth in the Gabriel Allon series
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