Gabriel Allon Books in Order
Part ofDaniel Silva Books in OrderSee the Gabriel Allon books in order by Daniel Silva, with quick summaries, series background, and tips on where to start this globe-spanning thriller saga.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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Publication Order
26 books
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.
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.
Series background & context
Gabriel Allon first appears in The Kill Artist as a man trying to live quietly. On the surface he is an art restorer, the sort of person who can spend hours repairing a damaged canvas or studying an Old Master. Underneath, he is a former Israeli intelligence operative with a long memory and a talent for covert work. The series keeps returning to that split identity, because Gabriel is never fully one thing or the other.
He is not a carefree action hero.
A personal tragedy hangs over the early books, and it helps explain why Gabriel often feels older, sadder, and more careful than the men chasing him. He would rather work with his hands than carry a gun, but trouble keeps finding him. Around him is a strong recurring cast: the hard driving spymaster Ari Shamron, Gabriel's wife Chiara, art dealer Julian Isherwood, British assassin Christopher Keller, and Vatican insider Luigi Donati. Their loyalties, jokes, and grudges give the series continuity from book to book.
The setting does a lot of the work here. These novels move through Venice, Rome, London, Vienna, Paris, Jerusalem, Moscow, the Swiss Alps, and the wider Middle East. Silva uses museums, churches, auction houses, safe houses, and government offices with equal confidence. Paintings, forged canvases, Nazi looted art, stolen antiquities, and buried church records are not just decoration. They are often the very thing everyone is willing to lie, steal, or kill to control.
These are spy novels, but they also love the details of restoration studios, auction houses, and European back streets.
Some books play like classic intelligence hunts, with Gabriel tracking bomb makers, recruiters, moles, and oligarchs. Others lean harder into the art world, where forgers, collectors, smugglers, and dealers operate in a gray zone of taste and greed. Later novels widen the lens even more, bringing in Russian money, ISIS, palace politics, and private networks that move power behind the scenes. Even at its biggest, though, the series stays rooted in one investigation and one man's judgment.
If you like thrillers that mix tradecraft with history, art, and real political tension, this is Daniel Silva's signature series. The books are best read in order because Gabriel's career changes in meaningful ways, and so do his relationships. Over time he moves from hunted operative to seasoned leader, but the appeal stays the same: smart plotting, beautiful settings, and a hero who solves problems with patience and craft as often as force.
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