The Unlikely Spy

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Summary: This is a great WWII spy novel.
Review: The characters are realistic and believable. Even though we know the historical ending, the suspense is nerve-wracking. The bad guy are not always bad and the good guys are certainly not always good. Fast paced and full of historical references that flesh out the characters and the plot. Who is who and what are the hidden motives keeps you on the edge and has you guessing.

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Summary: a good read
Review: This is well written, fast moving and enjoyable. I found it very hard to put down.

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Summary: Great detail and intrigue.
Review: I enjoyed the well drawn characters and the attention to detail. I really felt like I had gone back in time. Very much enjoyed all the twists and plots.

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Summary: A FAST PACED SPY NOVEL OF THE PUREST RAY SERENE
Review: In my opinion, beautifully written, regardless of the license taken with history. The characters were realistic and human, easily identified with. I thought the plot was excellent, with several significant parts which had sufficient innuendo to lead me to believe something else was going to happen - which didn't. I did think the end for the two main German adversaries was somewhat anti climactic, but the end of the story was excellent and showed Churchill to be a real "stinker". I have already ordered his next book, naturally through AMAZON.COM.

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Summary: Taut and atmospheric
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed The UnlikelySpy.It is a novel steeped in intrigue and mystery.The titlealone is one which is repletewith irony.The book conveys theintrigue and deceptions which tookplace in England during WWII.Themain character Vicary( a cleverplay on word) is an interesting composite of characeristics.Heis both sinner and saint;being capable of kindness and ruthlessness as the action warrants.He is a manipulator andis manipulated.An Unlikely Spy hasreally keened my interest in thisgenre type.I guess that as highas praise an author could want,developing a thirst for moreknowledge from the reader!

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Summary: I knew the ending, yet I was totally riveted!
Review: A few chapters into this book, we understand that it is yet another book about the deception of the Germans concerning the location of the landings at Normandy. Yet such is Daniel Silva's skill at developing charachters, major and minor, that we care deeply about what happens to them, and how it happens to them. I wish I had been the first to liken it to John Le Carre's opus, but I will have to settle for being one of the thousands of people who feel that The Unlikely Spy ranks right up there with the classic spy thrilliers of all time.

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Summary: Likable Spies
Review: Silva has written a first rate page turner. Those that decry its literary value are to be ignored. They are the type that go to a Broadway musical and spend the intermission loudly extolling the superiority of opera. You read a book like UNLIKELY SPY to be entertained. And Silva delivers. A few weak poinsts along the way can be tolerated. The characters are well developed and believable. The pace does not slacken. And the author's journalistic training makes possible some remarkable short and to-the-point resolutions. If only revisionist historians could write as well as Silva and other historical-novelists, our vision of the "truth" would surely be enhanced

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Summary: Outstanding story, both my wife and I enjoyed it!
Review: hard to put down, kept interest right to the end! After finishing, I recommended it to my wife and she enjoyed it as much as I

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Summary: A Rewarding Chase
Review: A good yarn should leave you depressed, when it's over, because the chase was too much fun for it to end. The Unlikely Spy had me hooked on an action and a philisophical level. Will they catch the Germans? Does a secret truth justify such deadly deception? These questions haunt the reader despite the common knowledge that the invasion went well. The action climax was a little too quick and convenient. Otherwise, it was a great yarn, which I did miss as I struggled through other '97 blockbusters

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Summary: Would have made a great Hitchcock movie!
Review: One cannot read this book without thinking of the early Ken Follett novels. The Unlikely Spy makes you wish Follett would return to the genre. The title character would have made an excellent Hitchcock villain- beautiful, brainy, cool, and dangerous. At any rate, this is an entertaining World War II spy novel, and hopefully Daniel Silva will provide us with many more entertaining novels in the future. One of the better novels I've read this year