Double standard!
I guess you have heard in a movie when someone says: “These fucking Americans”.
Well, I think after reading “Moscow Rule” the timing for saying that phrase couldn’t have been more appropriate.

Being my second novel of Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series and comparing it to “The Secret Servant” I’ve to say “Moscow Rule” feels average, tending to mediocrity.
I’d say that while “The Secret Servant” is an all-out-hyper fast action book, and for that, almost impossible to forecast what is coming next, “Moscow Rule” moves slow, being even tedious at times, it’s too cliché and predictable.
The other issue that I consider “very” important in a novel such as “Moscow Rule, is that while the political propaganda is kind-of impartial in “The Secret Servant”, I mean Silva do throw some low punches to the bad guys, but he also throw a few to the Americans and their allays. In this latest spy novel he is too pro-American and it seems that he really hates Russians. In my opinion, the overwhelming critic toward the Russian people and their history is a bit laughable and way too cynical, taking into consideration that the USA has its own quite large share of blood on their hands because of its foreign politic.

It’s a shame because I really like the character of Gabriel Allon. I suppose I’ve to go back to the beginning and see if the first books in the series carry better plots and are not so flattering toward a country that has no right to recriminate other former super power. After all, they are all the same.


cheers
Cristian
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