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House of Spies

Gabriel Allon • Book 17

by Daniel Silva

Narrated by George Guidall

4.52 ABR Score (39.6K ratings)
★ 4.31 Goodreads (35.1K) ★ 4.58 Audible (4.5K)
13h 1m Released 2017 Thriller

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

George Guidall makes tracking a ghost through the south of France feel like you're already there, tense and slightly overdressed.

  • Great if you want: globe-trotting spy craft with a methodical, intelligent hero
  • Listening experience: deliberate build toward a propulsive finale — patient but rewarding
  • Narration: Guidall's measured authority suits Silva's cool, precise prose perfectly
  • Skip if: you haven't read the series — backstory runs deep

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About This Audiobook

Four months after a devastating ISIS attack on American soil, a new act of terror strikes London's West End — and the thread connecting the two events leads Gabriel Allon to the French Riviera, a glamorous drug trafficker, and a British former model who has chosen not to ask where her comfortable life comes from. The seventeenth Gabriel Allon novel places the recently elevated spy chief in the role of handler as well as field operative, managing unlikely assets in a high-stakes hunt for the mastermind known only as Saladin.

George Guidall narrates the Gabriel Allon series with a European-inflected sophistication that suits Silva's world of art, intelligence, and cultivated menace. His pacing through the novel's shifts from Saint-Tropez luxury to Casablanca grit gives each setting its proper atmosphere, and his rendering of Gabriel's characteristic cool authority anchors a book with a very large cast. At just over 13 hours, House of Spies is a full-scale entry in the series.