-
The English Spy
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Series: Gabriel Allon, Book 15
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $30.79
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
The Black Widow
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin described as the most compelling fictional creation "since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond" ( Rocky Mountain News), is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
-
-
WGV
- By Walter Glenn Viers on 07-18-16
By: Daniel Silva
-
The Mark of the Assassin
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin.
-
-
Uncanny Portentous Prophecy
- By Snoodely on 10-27-13
By: Daniel Silva
-
The Unlikely Spy
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent.
-
-
Disapointed
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-19
By: Daniel Silva
-
Enemy at the Gates
- By: Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington.
-
-
Made me want to ask for a refund.
- By Anonymous User on 09-15-21
By: Vince Flynn, and others
-
The Gray Man
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
-
-
The gray man talks about gentry in the 3rd person on the court
- By Safekeeper on 07-26-17
By: Mark Greaney
-
Dream Town
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying.
-
-
Wow! Old Hollywood at it’s peak…
- By shelley on 04-21-22
By: David Baldacci
-
The Black Widow
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin described as the most compelling fictional creation "since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond" ( Rocky Mountain News), is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
-
-
WGV
- By Walter Glenn Viers on 07-18-16
By: Daniel Silva
-
The Mark of the Assassin
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin.
-
-
Uncanny Portentous Prophecy
- By Snoodely on 10-27-13
By: Daniel Silva
-
The Unlikely Spy
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent.
-
-
Disapointed
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-19
By: Daniel Silva
-
Enemy at the Gates
- By: Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington.
-
-
Made me want to ask for a refund.
- By Anonymous User on 09-15-21
By: Vince Flynn, and others
-
The Gray Man
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
-
-
The gray man talks about gentry in the 3rd person on the court
- By Safekeeper on 07-26-17
By: Mark Greaney
-
Dream Town
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying.
-
-
Wow! Old Hollywood at it’s peak…
- By shelley on 04-21-22
By: David Baldacci
-
The Faithful Spy
- By: Alex Berenson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
John Wells is the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda. Since before the attacks in 2001, Wells has been hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, biding his time, building his cover.
-
-
Enjoyable New Series
- By Lia on 07-09-17
By: Alex Berenson
-
The Lions of Lucerne
- By: Brad Thor
- Narrated by: Armand Schultz
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East - the Fatah Revolutionary Council. But surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath doesn't believe the Fatah Revolutionary Council is responsible for the attack.
-
-
Great Scott Harvath
- By Carol on 11-18-12
By: Brad Thor
-
Orphan X
- Evan Smoak, Book 1
- By: Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X - until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail.
-
-
It was good
- By Sarina Chopra on 03-27-16
By: Gregg Hurwitz
-
The Dark Hours
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
-
-
Too much Covid; not enough Bosch
- By sdhaase1 on 11-13-21
By: Michael Connelly
-
Power Down
- Dewey Andreas, Book 1
- By: Ben Coes
- Narrated by: Peter Hermann
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There was one factor that the terrorists didn’t take into account when they struck the Capitana oil platform off the coast of Colombia - slaughtering much of the crew and blowing up the platform - and that was the Capitana crew chief, Dewey Andreas. Dewey, former Army Ranger and Delta, survives the attack, rescuing as many of his men as possible. But the battle has just begun....
-
-
WOW.COULD NOT PUT THIS ONE DOWN. MUST READ!
- By Constance on 11-09-10
By: Ben Coes
-
Killing Floor
- Jack Reacher, Book 1
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
-
-
Even if you have it GET THIS ONE!!
- By shelley on 10-30-15
By: Lee Child
-
Mercy
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kyf Brewer
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from number one New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci.
-
-
A Huge Disappointment!
- By Gentle Heart on 11-26-21
By: David Baldacci
-
The Venetian Betrayal
- A Novel
- By: Steve Berry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone - former Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer - learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident. As part of a campaign of arson intended to mask a far more diabolical design, buildings across Europe are being devoured by infernos of unnatural strength. Born from the ashes is a new Eastern European nation whose ruthless leader will soon draw Cotton into an intense geopolitical chess game.
-
-
Ok, not great
- By W on 01-02-08
By: Steve Berry
-
The Cold Dish
- A Walt Longmire Mystery
- By: Craig Johnson
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, full of memorable characters.
-
-
If you like "F-bombs" you will like this.
- By DECLO 68 on 09-21-18
By: Craig Johnson
-
The Opening Chase: A Chase Fulton Novel
- Chase Fulton Series
- By: Cap Daniels
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When collegiate baseball phenom Chase Fulton suffers a freak injury on the field that shatters his dreams of becoming a Major League catcher, his future looks bleak until he’s recruited into quasi-governmental covert operations, where his training as an assassin and covert intelligence operative launches him into a world fraught with danger, intrigue, and unexpected passion.
-
-
Terrible book but good narration..
- By Trish R. on 04-14-19
By: Cap Daniels
-
I Am Pilgrim
- A Thriller
- By: Terry Hayes
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 22 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity.
-
-
Great story,great narration
- By Stanley Charloff on 01-20-15
By: Terry Hayes
-
Red Sparrow
- A Novel
- By: Jason Matthews
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow" - a trained seductress in the service, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America's valuable mole in Moscow.
-
-
Good Spy Novel (with a few quirks)
- By Aaron on 01-12-14
By: Jason Matthews
Publisher's Summary
Audie Award, Best Male Narrator, 2016
Number one New York Times best-selling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high-stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon.
First there was The English Assassin.
Then there was The English Girl.
Now comes The English Spy....
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with 17 thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring a diverse cast of compelling characters and ingenious plots that have taken them around the globe and back - from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. His brilliant hero, Gabriel Allon - art restorer, assassin, spy - has joined the pantheon of great fictional secret agents, including George Smiley, Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, and Simon Templar.
Following the success of his smash hit The Heist, Daniel Silva returns with another blockbuster - a powerhouse novel that showcases his outstanding skill and brilliant imagination and is sure to be a must -listen for both his multitudes of fans and growing legions of converts.
Critic Reviews
"Guidall's warm, lived-in voice brings so much to the experience, somehow always conveying understanding of and sympathy for the human dimension in the most terrible scenes of mayhem, the most morally ambiguous situations. His attention and pace never falter, and he is wonderful at the accents, including several flavors of Irish, along with Russian, Iranian, and an uncanny Israeli." (AudioFile)
More from the same
What listeners say about The English Spy
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- RBH
- 07-31-15
Disappointing
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I was expecting a book like the others in the Gabriel Allon series -- interesting, engaging, hard to put down. Instead, this book is disjointed and hard to follow. It feels like it is three or four different books poorly spliced together.
Has The English Spy turned you off from other books in this genre?
I'm certainly not going to stop listening to books in the genre, but it may be the last Daniel Silva book I buy.
What about George Guidall’s performance did you like?
He's one of my favorite readers. If it hadn't been for him I might not have finished the book.
12 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Suzi
- 07-24-15
Convoluted, confusing, and boring.
Any additional comments?
Too little plot for so many hours. Jumped around and tried to connect every piece of past books into one story which was a stretch.
6 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- MidwestGeek
- 10-19-15
Thriller, little mystery. Predictable outcomes.
I enjoyed this addition to the Gabriel Allon series, but much of the text is background and recollections of events earlier books. That is necessary to make the book self-contained, but for those of us who have read/listened to them all, it is redundant. If I were reading, I could skip ahead, but that is hard to do when listening. Allon is as indestructible as ever, but he has aged and matured. By the end of the book, he's ready for a change of life. Does this signal the end to the series or the beginning of a new chapter?
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Wayne
- 07-23-15
Daniel Silva just keeps getting better
This is my only review of Daniel Silva book since my negative review of Marching Season which was written very early in his career. I am a fan of all 16 of Silva's Gabriel Allon series which started very well and has only gotten better as he matured as a writer. If more than 5 stars were allowed the English Spy would get more. The English Spy brings back one of my favorite Silva characters, the English assassin and ex-spy living on Corsica, and "rehabilitates" him to a British spy agency. Gabriel Allon, now in his 50's, simply gets better with age. He is supposed to take over leadership of the office, an Israeli spy agency, but we;ll have to wait for the next Silva book to see.
Of all of the well read mystery/thriller series Silva's Allon is the most complex and tragic. But with the children born to him and his young wife Chiara at the end of The English Spy there is hope. The tragic Leah remains in the picture.
This book confirms that Daniel Silva is THE master of the mystery/thriller/spy genre if any doubt remained.
George Guidall has one of the easiest to listen to voices of all narrators. He is, as always, excellent.
23 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Robert
- 07-06-15
Silva Keeps Allon Relevant & Current
Mixing a rich set of characters, both good and evil, with a fast-moving, intriguing plot, Daniel Silva once again keeps the deeds of Gabriel Allon fresh and interesting.
Moreover, George Guidall's performance makes this Allon adventure an excellent audiobook. Guidall's spoken command of gender, age and accents is superb. As a result, he really brings to life SIlva's knack for great dialogue between key characters.
In my opinion, the English Spy is one of Siva's best Gabriel Allon books!
17 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Yvonne
- 07-01-15
Another great spy story from one of the best!
Would you consider the audio edition of The English Spy to be better than the print version?
George Guidall is magnificent as always.
What did you like best about this story?
An amazing plot line that's brings together England, Rusdia, Ireland Israel and brings the story full circle encompassing many details from previous novels.
What does George Guidall bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
he is an amazing narrator and the range of voices and accents he uses in this book were just wonderful. Well done.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes I couldn't wait for it to be released. I'm a huge fan of Daniel Silva and of of course Gabriel Allon and his team from the office.
Any additional comments?
as an Irish Jew I was disgusted at the very one sided view of the "troubles" in Northern Ireland. While there were many brutal members of the IRA who were terrorists it is unfair of Daniel Silva to paint the Irish with so broad a brush, even his description of present day Dublin paints a picture of thugs pushing drugs. Unnecessary could have been more even handed.
12 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Annie
- 07-08-15
just couldn't get into it
I'm a big fan of Daniel Silva. I've read/listened to ask of his books. but this one never hooked me. the settings and characters changed too frequently and too quickly. the scenes were truncated and not well chronicled. I found myself regularly rewinding the book to try to catch up with the story, but it just never settled in.
16 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Tarango
- 12-21-15
WHAT ?? If I had listen to the previous reviews...
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Sure I would.
What did you like best about this story?
The ending. Just because the bad guy was no longer in the picture, doesn't mean the story ends.
Which character – as performed by George Guidall – was your favorite?
Main Character, of course.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Ask better questions, please.
Any additional comments?
I don't understand the negative reviews. If I had followed their lead, I would not have listened to this book. This was one of Silva's better books, specially the ending.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Lori
- 08-01-15
Terrific spy story
I enjoy returning to familiar characters yet the story changes. I'm looking forward to the next phase when he will be chief.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Michael Mercer
- 08-10-15
Great story, great narration
Loved the book and the entire series. Each book is enjoyable on its own, but the series is one I recommend often. I have preordered the last several and look forward to the next one.
1 person found this helpful