The Marching Season, by spy thriller master Daniel Silva, is the sequel to
The Marching Season takes place during the first uncertain year of the peace process in Northern Ireland. With three savage acts of terrorism on a single night, a renegade group of Protestant extremists tries to turn back the hands of time. Their goal is to shatter the peace and make certain Ulster remains forever part of the United Kingdom.
Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne, the hero of Mark of the Assassin, is brought back and into the thick of all this when his father-in-law, former U.S. Senator Douglas Cannon, is nominated to be the new American ambassador to London. Michael first suspects, then discovers that the Protestant gunmen have marked Cannon for execution. Thus starts a deadly contest of wits and deception which will determine whether the peace in Northern Ireland will survive and whether his father-in-law lives or dies.
What Michael Osbourne does not realize, but we as readers are aware of, is that Michael is a minor player in a much larger game masterminded by an organization calling itself the Society, a secret order that uses its power and influence to foster global unrest for financial gain. Also, as it turns out, Michael is again up against his personal foe, the world’s most dangerous assassin, October.
The book has a set of good key characters, a good but perhaps a little too big plot, and lots of interacting action. The Marching Season is a certainly a novel of power and intrigue, where many things are not what they seem to be. It is a good read – entertaining, exciting, as all Daniel Silva books are – but to my mind still one of the weaker Daniel Silva novels.
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