The New Girl, Silva - B

                                         This is the second summer in a row where I believe the author has stumbled. This year's novel does not fit the pattern we're used to and is so tied into current affairs that it feels like a political lecture rather than an espionage novel. Gabriel spends most of the story working with, befriending and exchanging jibes with the heir to the Saudi throne. They team up in a master counter-espionage operation against Vladimir Putin. I guess it is time for summer reads.