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Thriller · 2018 · PG-13

The Other Woman

by Daniel Silva

A British intelligence officer is a Russian mole. Gabriel Allon must expose him — and the mole is very good.

#1 New York Times Bestseller #1 USA Today Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Kirkus Best Book of 2018 A Real Book Spy Best Thriller of 2018 From Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayal She was his best-kept secret … In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long

For14+GenreThrillerLength470 pagesRead time~13.1 hours

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What's in this book, at a glance — five things readers want to know before they start.

Violence

Some

Moderate violence — intelligence operations; a mole hunt; Cold War history

Language

Barely any

Mild

Sexual Content

None

No sexual content

Substance Use

None

No meaningful substance use

Emotional Intensity

A lot

The mole — who he is; how long he's been active; the catastrophic damage he's done and is still doing

What this book is about

A KGB defector makes a cryptic revelation about a mole inside British intelligence — someone who has been passing secrets to Moscow for decades. Gabriel Allon must identify and expose him before the mole identifies Gabriel first. The Other Woman is the eighteenth Gabriel Allon novel — Silva's most Philby-influenced; the Cold War's ghost haunts every page.

Notes for sensitive readers

Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.

A mole inside British intelligence — Philby echoes

Russian intelligence operations

A mole hunt's moral complexity

Eighteenth in the Gabriel Allon series

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