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In 1997 Silva left CNN to pursue writing full-time. Since then Silva has written 26 more spy novels, all best-sellers on The New York Times list. Gabriel Allon, an Israeli art restorer, spy and assassin, is the protagonist in all but three of Silva's titles. The series has been a New York Times bestseller since its first installment in 2001.
House of Spies is a 2017 spy novel by Daniel Silva. It is the seventeenth Gabriel Allon series. It was released on July 11, 2017 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list at #1.
Gabriel Allon is the main protagonist in Daniel Silva's thriller and espionage series that focuses on Israeli intelligence.The main characters refer to their employer as 'the Office', although it is not specified that it is Mossad (which is indeed known internally in the Israeli intelligence community as HaMisrad [עברית: המשרד], literally 'the Office').
It was longlisted for the 2013 IMPAC award, and like others in Silva's Allon series, The Fallen Angel was a New York Times bestseller rising to #1 on the hardcover fiction list in August 2012. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Zarine Khan was considered for Chimera , a planned movie adaptation of the book, [ 7 ] however it did not proceed.
Silva's Khalid bin Mohammed is known as KBM, and, like MBS, has acquired the painting Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and a unique superyacht. Silva began his novel again, this time making his Saudi prince guilty of a killing almost identical to Khashoggi's, although the novel's version of the prince is "redeemable" through loss ...
The Unlikely Spy is a 1996 spy novel written by Daniel Silva, set during World War II. While some of the characters and events are fictional, the book is based on the real-life attempt by the Allies to use British intelligence to cover up the true plans for D-Day. The deception plan was called Operation Fortitude, and Double Cross also played a ...
The Black Widow, unusually for the Gabriel Allon series, has a Foreword by the author, as well as the usual Author's Note and Acknowledgements at the end.In the Foreword, Daniel Silva clarifies that his manuscript of this novel was already well developed when, on November 13, 2015, armed suicide bombers attacked in Paris, most notably at the Bataclan theater, and killed about 130 people.
Unusually for the Allon series, this novel is a sequel to the previous one (Moscow Rules), with many of the same characters, in particular the antagonist, Ivan Kharkov.. The beginning finds Gabriel Allon and his new wife Chiara resuming the honeymoon in rural Umbria which was interrupted by the events of Moscow Rules; Gabriel is again restoring a painting for the Vatican, this time Guido Reni ...