While all the Silva books tend to blend together in my memory, he has a great formula and sticks to it. His formula as I see it follows these steps:1. Semi-retired Israeli spy (Gabriel Allon) has sworn off spying and is engrossed inhis 2nd career as art restorer.2. Someone from Allon's past asks him afavor to solve some international crime/stop some international terrorist.3. Allon hems and haws, but finally agrees to do the work.4. Allon determines the source of the crime/terror and vows personally to destroy them.5. Allon assembles a crack team to surveil, set-up and take-down criminals/terrorists.6. Plan goes almost perfect, but there with a few hitches. Many, many, many bad guys die.7. Wash, rinse and repeat.The English Girl follows these steps again. For future novels, Silva has set up his character to take over as the director of the Israeli intelligence service. It should provide him fodder for many more "Gabriel Allon" novels.
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