The English Girl, Silva - B++

                                         This is the thirteenth book in the Gabriel Allon series that just keeps getting better and better.  Allon is the Israeli master assassin, who'd rather be an art restorer, and who first worked for the Mossad avenging the Munich Olympic massacre.  He is a complex character, the only son of Holocaust survivors,  a reluctant, yet terribly skilled agent. Silva has him slated for the Chief's job, which in all likelihood extends the series a decade or so. At some point a sixty-year-old can't be a field agent. In this book, he is requested by his English friends to try and find the PM's kidnapped mistress. He fails in his efforts, but decides to re-consider the whole operation a month or so later. He unearths a unique, diabolical Russian connection and off we go on a great, exciting operation that plays out between London and Moscow. Silva is now the second writer I've read this year who claims that the Cold War is back on and who has Russia's President playing an active role in international intrigue.  He also writes with great conviction in support of the state of Israel, while writing wonderful thrillers.