Daniel Silva Books in Order

Daniel Silva is an American spy thriller author best known for the Gabriel Allon thriller series, featuring an Israeli art restorer and intelligence operative who keeps getting pulled back into secret work for the Office. His books have on the New York Times and international bestsellers list, with thirteen in the Gabriel Allon series reaching number one. He has won the Barry Award for Best Thriller twice, for The Messenger and The Fallen Angel. His books are a combination of intelligence work with spies and counter-terrorism, European art and architecture involving famous European landmarks and art museums, WWII crimes and the holocaust with Nazi art looting, and international politics involving Russia and the Middle East.

This page lists all Daniel Silva books in order, including the Gabriel Allon series, the Michael Osbourne series, and his standalone debut The Unlikely Spy.

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Gabriel Allon Series (Books in Order)

The Gabriel Allon series follows art restorer Gabriel Allon, a former Israeli intelligence operative who is constantly pulled back to do just one more mission for the Office, Israel’s secret intelligence service. At the beginning of the series, Gabriel is living a quiet life restoring paintings, at least on the surface. In fact, he is a former operative who was recruited after the murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in the early 1970s.

From there, the books move through Europe, Israel, Russia, Vatican, Britain, and also in the world of art. While the first books are mission-based, later on, as Gabriel’s position inside the Office changes, the series becomes a larger career arc instead.

1. The Kill Artist, 2000
2. The English Assassin, 2002
3. The Confessor, 2002
4. A Death in Vienna, 2003
5. Prince of Fire, 2005
6. The Messenger, 2006
7. The Secret Servant, 2007
8. Moscow Rules, 2008
9. The Defector, 2009
10. The Rembrandt Affair, 2010
11. Portrait of a Spy, 2011
12. The Fallen Angel, 2012
13. The English Girl, 2013
14. The Heist, 2014
15. The English Spy, 2015
16. The Black Widow, 2016
17. House of Spies, 2017
18. The Other Woman, 2018
19. The New Girl, 2019
20. The Order, 2020
21. The Cellist, 2021
22. Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 2022
23. The Collector, 2023
24. A Death in Cornwall, 2024
25. An Inside Job, 2025
26. Ransom, 2026

Michael Osbourne Series (Books in Order)

The Michael Osbourne series follows CIA officer Michael Osbourne who is forced go to back in the field to hunt down Jean-Paul Delaroche, a professional assassin trained by the KGB and known by the codename October. Delaroche has a signature when killing: three shots to the face, a killing method which leaves a personal mark on Osbourne’s life. The two books, The Mark of the Assassin and The Marching Season, are older than the Gabriel Allon series, and focus on Osbourne’s obsession with tracking down the man who murdered someone he loved.

1. The Mark of the Assassin, 1998
2. The Marching Season, 1999

Standalone Novels

• The Unlikely Spy, 1997

Daniel Silva Biography

Daniel Silva is an American spy thriller author whose work includes the long-running Gabriel Allon series, the Michael Osbourne novels, and the standalone World War II thriller The Unlikely Spy. He has published 28 spy novels since 1996, all of them New York Times bestsellers. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Official website: danielsilvabooks.com

Born in 1960 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Silva moved with his teacher parents to Merced, California, when he was seven years old. He was raised Catholic. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno, and began a graduate program in international relations at San Francisco State University but he left when started working as a journalist at United Press International in 1984. His first assignment was covering the Democratic National Convention. After this temporary assignment, he started working at UPI as a full employer, until he was transferred to Washington, D.C. a year later. After two more years he moved to Cairo, where he became UPI’s Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the Persian Gulf.

Daniel Silva returned to Washington to work for Cable News Network’s Washington bureau, where he worked as a producer and executive producer for several television programs, including Crossfire, Reliable Sources and Capital Gang. While still at CNN, in 1994 he began work on his first novel, The Unlikely Spy, a World War II thriller about espionage around the Allied invasion of France. The book debuted on the New York Times bestseller list on January 26, 1997, remained on the list for five weeks, rising to number 13. In 1997 he left CNN to write full time.

His second and third novels, The Mark of the Assassin and The Marching Season, were also instant New York Times bestsellers and introduced CIA officer Michael Osbourne and nemesis, international assassin Jean-Paul Delaroche. His fourth novel, The Kill Artist, featured the art restorer and sometime Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon, and although Daniel Silva did not realize it at the time, Gabriel’s adventures had only just begun, as eventually this became the author’s best known and longest series. It has been a New York Times bestseller since the first novel in 2001.

Some of his novels involve Islamic terrorism, some involve Russian villains, and some are accounts about historic events related to World War II and the Holocaust, and almost all also gravitate toward the topic of art theft and restoration. In the later books, after Gabriel became a senior figure inside the Office, he is shown living a more retired life from where he keeps getting pulled into action every now and then.

Daniel Silva met Jamie Gangel, a CNN special correspondent, while they were both correspondents in the Middle East. They later married, and Daniel Silva converted from Catholicism to Judaism. In January 2009, he was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Daniel Silva and his family live in Florida.

Daniel Silva Awards and Honors

Awards

• The Messenger – Barry Award for Best Thriller (2007)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Council appointment (2009)
• The Fallen Angel – Barry Award for Best Thriller (2013)
• The English Spy – Audie Award, Best Male Narrator (2016)

Nominations and Shortlists

• The Confessor – CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2004)
• A Death in Vienna – Barry Award for Best Thriller (2005)
• A Death in Vienna – CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2005)
• The Messenger – CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2007)
• The Messenger – ITW Thriller Award for Best Novel (2007)
• Moscow Rules – CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2009)
• The Rembrandt Affair – Barry Award for Best Thriller (2011)
• The Fallen Angel – Goodreads Choice Award, Mystery & Thriller (2012)
• Portrait of a Spy, read by Simon Vance – Audie Award for Fiction (2012)
• The English Spy – Goodreads Choice Award, Mystery & Thriller (2015)
• The Black Widow – Goodreads Choice Award, Mystery & Thriller (2016)
• The Black Widow – CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2016)

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