{"id":4651,"date":"2019-08-30T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=4651\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:34:10","slug":"new-girl-daniel-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2019\/08\/30\/new-girl-daniel-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE NEW GIRL&#8221; by Daniel Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-new-girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-new-girl-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-new-girl-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-new-girl.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>So, Gabriel Allon is our family&#8217;s friend since nineteen books ago.<\/p>\n<p>We like him because he is an extremely talented painter and art restorer.<br \/>\nWe appreciate him for his fierce love of his family.<br \/>\nWe admire him for how he defends his country and how he is leading his colleagues.<br \/>\nAnd we empathize with him as a Jewish son whose mother escaped Holocaust and named him Gabriel:\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;the one who defends Israel against the accusers; the angel of judgement.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last book in which Gabriel Allon appears is named &#8220;The new girl&#8221;, and it is written, as always, by the writer Daniel Silva.<br \/>\nThe context of the book is the murder of the journalist from Saudi Arabia in their embassy from Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Khalid bin Mohammed is interested in two things. The first is power. The second is money. <br \/>\nFor the Al Saud, they are one and the same. <br \/>\nWithout power, there is no money. And without money, there is no power.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;Khalid predicted that in twenty years, the price of oil would fall to zero. If Saudi Arabia was to have any future, it had to change, and quickly. <br \/>\nHe wanted to modernize and diversify the economy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">He wanted to loosen the Wahhabi shackles on women and draw them into the workforce. <br \/>\nHe wanted Saudi Arabia to be a<\/span><\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>normal<\/strong><\/span><em> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>country, with movies theatres, music, nightclubs, and caf\u00e9s where people of both sexes could mingle without fear of the Mutaween.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>He even talked about allowing hotels and restaurants to serve alcohol so Saudis wouldn&#8217;t have to make the drive across the causeway to Bahrain every time they wanted a drink. <br \/>\nIt was radical staff.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A small dose of reality for October 2019:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Brexit, which was clandestinely supported by the Kremlin, was a national calamity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Britain would soon be a shell of its former self, unable to put up any meaningful resistance to Russia&#8217;s spreading influence and growing military power.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kindle, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Gabriel Allon is our family&#8217;s friend since nineteen books ago. 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