Audiobook Review: The New Girl by Daniel Silva, read by George Guidall
The Summer is here, July is upon us and that can only mean that the time has come for another Gabriel Allon adventure from the #1 New York Times Best-selling and award-winning thriller author Daniel Silva. This year’s book is the 19th in this amazing series of thrillers and it’s called The New Girl.
I listened to The New Girl in one session, ignoring work, phone calls and I can’t remember what I ate while listening… My immersion was complete from the introductory chapter to the last word and I am left wanting for more, as always…
The famous Gabriel Allon and the supporting cast of much loved characters are back for another heart pounding adventure in the treacherous world of espionage, terrorists, kidnappers and assassins. I always appreciated the level of humanity the author brings up in his vivid characters and this is one of the main reasons I return to this series every year.
Gabriel is now head of the secret and feared Israeli organization known as The Office and, at the request of an old friend, he must work with old enemies to find a missing girl, but as one thing leads to another in his world, Gabriel and the team will be pulled into a very dangerous situation very fast…
The action moves swiftly from Geneva to New York, from historical Israel and the United Arab Emirates to France, to Spain and continues at breakneck speed for the entire adventure. We meet trained spies, deadly special operators, unwilling accomplices, hateful individuals, innocent victims and a very scary plot seemingly ripped out of today’s news…
The audiobook version of The New Girl is brought to life as a great narrative experience by one of the best actors, voice over artists and narrators in the Audiobooks Industry. His name is George Guidall and if you are familiar with the Audies Awards you’ll probably remember that he won one Audie a few years ago as Best Male Narrator of the Year for his performance of The English Spy: Gabriel Allon, book 15, also by Daniel Silva.
The amazing George Guidall delivers The New Girl in a calm, soothing and familiar cadence. He uses many different voices and always appropriate accents for all the characters and by doing so it keeps everyone clearly differentiated in the listener’s mind. You will just know who is speaking by the French, Israeli, Spanish, American, Russian, British or Arabic accents employed in his excellent performance.
He is one of my favorite narrators of all times and in my mind he is Gabriel Allon, Sheriff Walt Longmire, Mitch Rapp and The Gunslinger from the Dark Tower series.
It feels like I listened to George Guidall my entire life, although there are probably just 14 or 15 years since I listen to audiobooks, I love his reading style and I consider him part of my beloved family of narrators with whom I spend long and satisfying hours every day!
Daniel Silva is one of my favorite thriller and espionage authors and he continues to deliver great entertainment with his latest novel, The New Girl, which I highly recommend to everyone familiar with his works and to those who want a good thriller in the likes of Mark Greaney, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn.
Author: Daniel Silva, Narrator: George Guidall, Duration: 10 Hours 16 Mins, Publisher: Harper Audio
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