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Browse Daniel Silva books in order, with quick summaries, Gabriel Allon and Michael Osbourne guides, and simple advice on where to start reading.

Last updated: June 30, 2026

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The Unlikely Spy

by Daniel Silva

1995

On the eve of D-Day, British intelligence races to stop a Nazi spy from uncovering Allied invasion plans. Daniel Silva's debut pairs quiet, cerebral counterintelligence with mounting wartime suspense.

The Mark of the Assassin

by Daniel Silva

1998

When a terrorist bombing destroys a commercial flight, CIA officer Michael Osbourne recognizes the killer's signature. His hunt for the assassin becomes an obsessive pursuit that threatens his career and family.

The Marching Season

by Daniel Silva

1999

As Northern Ireland's peace process wobbles, Protestant extremists launch a campaign of terror meant to shatter it. Michael Osbourne returns to the field when his father-in-law, the new U.S. ambassador to London, is targeted.

The Kill Artist

by Daniel Silva

2001

Former Israeli operative and art restorer Gabriel Allon is drawn out of hiding to hunt Tariq, the terrorist tied to his deepest loss. The mission becomes a personal duel of revenge, deception, and shifting loyalties.

The Confessor

by Daniel Silva

2002

Gabriel leaves Venice after a scholar is murdered and Vatican secrets begin to surface. His search pulls him into a conspiracy rooted in the Church's wartime past and the deadly effort to keep it buried.

The English Assassin

by Daniel Silva

2002

Sent to Zurich to restore a painting, Gabriel finds his client murdered and a hidden cache of stolen Impressionists missing. The trail leads into Swiss wartime secrets and a killer from his own past.

A Death in Vienna

by Daniel Silva

2003

Asked to investigate a bombing in Vienna, Gabriel encounters a face tied to his family history. What starts as one case opens into a chilling hunt through old Nazi crimes and long-hidden identities.

Prince of Fire

by Daniel Silva

2005

After a bombing in Rome exposes dangerous secrets about Gabriel's past, he is pulled back into Israeli intelligence. The chase for a master terrorist turns into a tense cat-and-mouse game across Europe and the Middle East.

The Messenger

by Daniel Silva

2006

Evidence of a plot against the Vatican sends Gabriel racing to Rome. After a devastating attack, he goes undercover in the art world to track the Saudi financiers and operatives behind it.

The Secret Servant

by Daniel Silva

2007

A routine cleanup job in Amsterdam leads Gabriel into an extremist network spreading across Europe. When the American ambassador's daughter is kidnapped, the mission becomes a brutal race against time.

Moscow Rules

by Daniel Silva

2008

The murder of a journalist draws Gabriel to a new Russia ruled by money, fear, and old intelligence instincts. There he faces an oligarch arms dealer whose next deal could arm al-Qaeda with devastating power.

The Defector

by Daniel Silva

2009

When Russian defector Grigori Bulganov vanishes, Gabriel refuses to believe he has betrayed them. The search pits him again against Ivan Kharkov in a deeply personal battle over loyalty, marriage, and revenge.

The Rembrandt Affair

by Daniel Silva

2010

A murdered art restorer and a stolen portrait pull Gabriel out of retirement in Cornwall. His search for the missing Rembrandt leads through the art trade to dark money, family secrets, and men who kill for profit.

Portrait of a Spy

by Daniel Silva

2011

After a suicide bombing in London slips past him, Gabriel joins the hunt for a new jihadi mastermind. To get close, he must build a dangerous inside operation with help from a woman bound to his past.

The Fallen Angel

by Daniel Silva

2012

While restoring a Caravaggio at the Vatican, Gabriel is asked to look into a curator's suspicious death. His quiet inquiry uncovers looted antiquities, Church secrets, and a plot with global consequences.

The English Girl

by Daniel Silva

2013

The kidnapped mistress of Britain's prime minister must be found before scandal and politics destroy everything. Gabriel has only days to rescue her, and the trail leads from France to London to Moscow.

The Heist

by Daniel Silva

2014

Gabriel is recruited to recover a stolen Caravaggio, but the case opens onto murder, hidden money, and international intrigue. To trap the people behind it, he may need to steal a masterpiece of his own.

The English Spy

by Daniel Silva

2015

When a beloved British royal is killed in a yacht bombing, Gabriel hunts the legendary bomb maker responsible. With Christopher Keller beside him, the case becomes a fast, personal pursuit of vengeance.

The Black Widow

by Daniel Silva

2016

On the eve of becoming intelligence chief, Gabriel returns to the field to stop an ISIS mastermind. The only way in is through a brave young doctor sent undercover into the heart of the terror network.

House of Spies

by Daniel Silva

2017

Gabriel, now head of Israeli intelligence, keeps chasing Saladin after a new terror attack in London. The hunt leads to the French Riviera, Casablanca, and a risky plan built on deception and unlikely allies.

The Other Woman

by Daniel Silva

2018

A Frenchwoman's memoir may expose a Kremlin secret buried since the Cold War. When a Russian source is killed, Gabriel begins a hunt for the mole inside the West's highest circles.

The New Girl

by Daniel Silva

2019

A kidnapped girl at a Swiss boarding school is not who she seems, and neither is the world around her. Gabriel's search draws him into Saudi succession politics and a covert struggle for the Middle East.

The Order

by Daniel Silva

2020

The sudden death of a pope brings Gabriel to Rome, where a missing Swiss Guard and a vanished letter suggest murder. The investigation leads to a secret Catholic society and a long-suppressed gospel.

The Cellist

by Daniel Silva

2021

A Russian dissident is killed in London with a nerve agent, and Gabriel doubts the obvious explanation. His search for the truth exposes dirty money, disinformation, and a private network working to destabilize the West.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

by Daniel Silva

2022

Living quietly in Venice, Gabriel is asked to look into the sale of a van Dyck portrait that may be a fake. The inquiry leads him into forgery, fraud, and one of the boldest deceptions of his career.

The Collector

by Daniel Silva

2023

Gabriel is asked to track down the stolen Vermeer The Concert, a priceless painting missing for decades. The trail leads from Venice into Russian power circles, where the art theft may be tied to a far larger conspiracy.

A Death in Cornwall

by Daniel Silva

2024

A murder in a Cornish seaside village and a missing Picasso pull Gabriel into a new investigation. To solve it, he builds an unusual team and follows the case from Cornwall to Corsica and British power circles.

An Inside Job

by Daniel Silva

2025

Restoring a major painting in Venice, Gabriel finds a dead woman in the lagoon and a vanished Leonardo at the Vatican. The case pulls him into mob money, art theft, and a crisis that reaches St. Peter's Square.

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Ransom

by Daniel Silva

2026

Gabriel is asked to find the missing wife of a British billionaire, a socialite who vanishes while on holiday. The search uncovers dangerous secrets and drags him back toward enemies he thought were behind him.

Where to start with Daniel Silva

If you want his World War II standalone: The Unlikely Spy
If you want Gabriel Allon from the beginning: The Kill ArtistThe English AssassinThe Confessor
If you prefer early CIA thrillers: The Mark of the AssassinThe Marching Season
If you like art-world intrigue: The Rembrandt AffairThe HeistPortrait of an Unknown Woman
If you want the recent Gabriel run: Portrait of an Unknown WomanThe CollectorA Death in CornwallAn Inside Job

Daniel Silva sub-series and character series

Gabriel Allon books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Kill Artist"

    The Kill Artist

    by Daniel Silva

    2001Gabriel Allon, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Confessor"

    The Confessor

    by Daniel Silva

    2002Gabriel Allon, Book 3
  3. Book cover for "The English Assassin"

    The English Assassin

    by Daniel Silva

    2002Gabriel Allon, Book 2
  4. Book cover for "A Death in Vienna"

    A Death in Vienna

    by Daniel Silva

    2003Gabriel Allon, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Prince of Fire"

    Prince of Fire

    by Daniel Silva

    2005Gabriel Allon, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "The Messenger"

    The Messenger

    by Daniel Silva

    2006Gabriel Allon, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "The Secret Servant"

    The Secret Servant

    by Daniel Silva

    2007Gabriel Allon, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "Moscow Rules"

    Moscow Rules

    by Daniel Silva

    2008Gabriel Allon, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "The Defector"

    The Defector

    by Daniel Silva

    2009Gabriel Allon, Book 9
  10. Book cover for "The Rembrandt Affair"

    The Rembrandt Affair

    by Daniel Silva

    2010Gabriel Allon, Book 10
  11. Book cover for "Portrait of a Spy"

    Portrait of a Spy

    by Daniel Silva

    2011Gabriel Allon, Book 11
  12. Book cover for "The Fallen Angel"

    The Fallen Angel

    by Daniel Silva

    2012Gabriel Allon, Book 12
  13. Book cover for "The English Girl"

    The English Girl

    by Daniel Silva

    2013Gabriel Allon, Book 13
  14. Book cover for "The Heist"

    The Heist

    by Daniel Silva

    2014Gabriel Allon, Book 14
  15. Book cover for "The English Spy"

    The English Spy

    by Daniel Silva

    2015Gabriel Allon, Book 15
  16. Book cover for "The Black Widow"

    The Black Widow

    by Daniel Silva

    2016Gabriel Allon, Book 16
  17. Book cover for "House of Spies"

    House of Spies

    by Daniel Silva

    2017Gabriel Allon, Book 17
  18. Book cover for "The Other Woman"

    The Other Woman

    by Daniel Silva

    2018Gabriel Allon, Book 18
  19. Book cover for "The New Girl"

    The New Girl

    by Daniel Silva

    2019Gabriel Allon, Book 19
  20. Book cover for "The Order"

    The Order

    by Daniel Silva

    2020Gabriel Allon, Book 20
  21. Book cover for "The Cellist"

    The Cellist

    by Daniel Silva

    2021Gabriel Allon, Book 21
  22. Book cover for "Portrait of an Unknown Woman"

    Portrait of an Unknown Woman

    by Daniel Silva

    2022Gabriel Allon, Book 22
  23. Book cover for "The Collector"

    The Collector

    by Daniel Silva

    2023Gabriel Allon, Book 23
  24. Book cover for "A Death in Cornwall"

    A Death in Cornwall

    by Daniel Silva

    2024Gabriel Allon, Book 24
  25. Book cover for "An Inside Job"

    An Inside Job

    by Daniel Silva

    2025Gabriel Allon, Book 25
  26. Book cover for "Ransom"

    Ransom

    by Daniel Silva

    2026Gabriel Allon, Book 26

Gabriel Allon books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Kill Artist"

    The Kill Artist

    by Daniel Silva

    2001Gabriel Allon, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The English Assassin"

    The English Assassin

    by Daniel Silva

    2002Gabriel Allon, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Confessor"

    The Confessor

    by Daniel Silva

    2002Gabriel Allon, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "A Death in Vienna"

    A Death in Vienna

    by Daniel Silva

    2003Gabriel Allon, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Prince of Fire"

    Prince of Fire

    by Daniel Silva

    2005Gabriel Allon, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "The Messenger"

    The Messenger

    by Daniel Silva

    2006Gabriel Allon, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "The Secret Servant"

    The Secret Servant

    by Daniel Silva

    2007Gabriel Allon, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "Moscow Rules"

    Moscow Rules

    by Daniel Silva

    2008Gabriel Allon, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "The Defector"

    The Defector

    by Daniel Silva

    2009Gabriel Allon, Book 9
  10. Book cover for "The Rembrandt Affair"

    The Rembrandt Affair

    by Daniel Silva

    2010Gabriel Allon, Book 10
  11. Book cover for "Portrait of a Spy"

    Portrait of a Spy

    by Daniel Silva

    2011Gabriel Allon, Book 11
  12. Book cover for "The Fallen Angel"

    The Fallen Angel

    by Daniel Silva

    2012Gabriel Allon, Book 12
  13. Book cover for "The English Girl"

    The English Girl

    by Daniel Silva

    2013Gabriel Allon, Book 13
  14. Book cover for "The Heist"

    The Heist

    by Daniel Silva

    2014Gabriel Allon, Book 14
  15. Book cover for "The English Spy"

    The English Spy

    by Daniel Silva

    2015Gabriel Allon, Book 15
  16. Book cover for "The Black Widow"

    The Black Widow

    by Daniel Silva

    2016Gabriel Allon, Book 16
  17. Book cover for "House of Spies"

    House of Spies

    by Daniel Silva

    2017Gabriel Allon, Book 17
  18. Book cover for "The Other Woman"

    The Other Woman

    by Daniel Silva

    2018Gabriel Allon, Book 18
  19. Book cover for "The New Girl"

    The New Girl

    by Daniel Silva

    2019Gabriel Allon, Book 19
  20. Book cover for "The Order"

    The Order

    by Daniel Silva

    2020Gabriel Allon, Book 20
  21. Book cover for "The Cellist"

    The Cellist

    by Daniel Silva

    2021Gabriel Allon, Book 21
  22. Book cover for "Portrait of an Unknown Woman"

    Portrait of an Unknown Woman

    by Daniel Silva

    2022Gabriel Allon, Book 22
  23. Book cover for "The Collector"

    The Collector

    by Daniel Silva

    2023Gabriel Allon, Book 23
  24. Book cover for "A Death in Cornwall"

    A Death in Cornwall

    by Daniel Silva

    2024Gabriel Allon, Book 24
  25. Book cover for "An Inside Job"

    An Inside Job

    by Daniel Silva

    2025Gabriel Allon, Book 25
  26. Book cover for "Ransom"

    Ransom

    by Daniel Silva

    2026Gabriel Allon, Book 26

Michael Osbourne books in order

Explore this series
  1. Book cover for "The Mark of the Assassin"

    The Mark of the Assassin

    by Daniel Silva

    1998Michael Osbourne, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Marching Season"

    The Marching Season

    by Daniel Silva

    1999Michael Osbourne, Book 2

Michael Osbourne books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Mark of the Assassin"

    The Mark of the Assassin

    by Daniel Silva

    1998Michael Osbourne, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Marching Season"

    The Marching Season

    by Daniel Silva

    1999Michael Osbourne, Book 2

Standalone Daniel Silva books

  1. Book cover for "The Unlikely Spy"

    The Unlikely Spy

    by Daniel Silva

    1995

Author bio

Daniel Silva was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1960, and moved with his family to Merced, California, when he was seven. He grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, far from the European capitals, intelligence services, and art collections that would later fill his fiction, but he was already drawn to books about spies and world affairs.

Before he was a novelist, he was a working reporter.

Silva studied at California State University, Fresno, then started graduate work in international relations at San Francisco State University. A temporary job with United Press International changed the plan. He was asked to help cover the 1984 Democratic National Convention, stayed on with the wire service, moved to Washington, and later became a Middle East correspondent based in Cairo.

That stretch mattered.

Reporting from Washington and the Middle East gave him a close look at power, bureaucracy, conflict, and the strange mix of public message and private maneuvering that runs through espionage fiction. It also gave him the habits of a journalist: clear sentences, careful research, and an eye for the telling detail instead of the loud one.

While reporting in the region, he met journalist Jamie Gangel. After returning to Washington, Silva joined CNN, where he worked as a producer and later an executive producer on the network's political talk show unit, including programs such as Crossfire and Capital Gang. By the mid-1990s, though, he knew television news was not the job he wanted to do forever.

He still wanted to write fiction.

With Gangel's support, he began work on The Unlikely Spy, a World War II thriller about British counterintelligence and the run-up to D-Day. The book was published in 1996 and gave him an immediate foothold as a novelist. A year later, he left CNN to write full time.

His next books, The Mark of the Assassin and The Marching Season, followed CIA officer Michael Osbourne. Then came The Kill Artist, which introduced Gabriel Allon, the art restorer and Israeli operative who became Silva's signature character. That series let him bring together nearly all of his interests at once: spycraft, terrorism, European history, Vatican politics, Old Master paintings, forged art, and the long afterlife of past crimes. Later titles such as The Confessor, The Rembrandt Affair, The Black Widow, and The Order show how wide that canvas can be.

One reason the books feel so lived-in is place. Venice, Rome, Vienna, London, Cornwall, and the Middle East are not just stops on a map in Silva's fiction. They shape the mood and the stakes. His reporting background helps here too, because even the biggest plots stay anchored by procedural detail and the feel of how institutions actually work.

Readers usually come to Silva for the same reasons. The books move quickly, but they also make room for craft, whether Gabriel is repairing a painting, building a false identity, or following a thread through old intelligence files. Silva likes stories where the past keeps leaking into the present, where institutions hide their worst secrets, and where decent people have to decide how much compromise they can live with. The Messenger won the Barry Award for Best Thriller, and his novels have been published in more than thirty countries.

Raised Catholic, Silva later converted to Judaism. He and Jamie Gangel have twins, and he has kept writing Gabriel Allon novels for decades, often drawing on current events and the hidden systems of money, power, and memory behind them.

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