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product_id: 304484394
title: "The Unlikely Spy"
brand: "daniel silva"
price: "R508"
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reviews_count: 5
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# The Unlikely Spy

**Brand:** daniel silva
**Price:** R508
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Unlikely Spy by daniel silva
- **How much does it cost?** R508 with free shipping
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## Description

The Unlikely Spy

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## Customer Reviews

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    A good story but perhaps too long.
  

*by A***X on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2020*

This novel is long and could have benefited from a decent edit.  The first half of the story, particularly some of the character backgrounds, could have been cut with no loss to the story; this section does drag somewhat. Once the action gets moving, it's a good, fast-paced thriller.My advice to you is to use a notebook to jot down the names and a brief background of the dozens of characters introduced in the first half of this story. Otherwise, you'll find yourself quickly confused.There are a few unbelievable sequences in the second half which make no sense and jar with the rest of the story.Despite these criticisms, it's a good story and the characters are mostly well written and interesting.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A ripping yarn
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2019*

If you've read any of Silva's Gabriel Allon books, this, his first novel, is very different in style.The subject matter is the lengths the allies went to so they would deceive the enemy on the D Day landing locations.  Silva weaves in well known historical facts with fictionalised accounts which feel almost believable.  It's old fashioned and in some ways not quite as clever as it thinks it is, however, if you don't think too hard and accept it at face value, it really is a good read. Silva has obviously spent a lot of time in London and knows it pretty well although back in the 40s way before facial recognition, I think anyone could lose a tail in London considering the tube station network and multiple entrances yet it is portrayed as the mark of a super spy...

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    Pleased to have found this author.
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2016*

I very much enjoyed this book, which (thanks to a hangover) I read in almost one sitting. It IS the sort of book that draws you in, and you simply have to know what is going to happen next. Yes, we know the story - the invasion went ahead and the war ended! - but Silva's trick is to keep the tension high, right to the very end. We do not know whether the spies will win out and succeed in their objective (trying to avoid spoilers) until the last few pages. It could almost have been written as a film script (and no doubt was). A thoroughly good read, I can certainly recommend it.This is the author's first novel. I noticed a few inaccuracies that were not major, but irritating - otherwise I would have given five stars. None the less, I will move on to others.

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