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Daniel Silva


Born
Michigan
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Mystery & Thrillers


Daniel Silva was born in Michigan in 1960 and raised in California where he received his BA from Fresno State. Silva began his writing career as a journalist for United Press International (UPI), traveling in the Middle East and covering the Iran-Iraq war, terrorism and political conflicts. From UPI he moved to CNN, where he eventually became executive producer of its Washington-based public policy programming. In 1994 he began work on his first novel, The Unlikely Spy, a surprise best seller that won critical acclaim. He turned to writing full time in 1997 and all of his books have been New York Times/national best sellers, translated into 25 languages and published across Europe and the world. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Daniel Silva about his new thriller “The Collector,” about a fictional search for a really stolen painting by Vermeer.

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Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.22 · 941,474 ratings · 48,634 reviews · 183 distinct works • Similar authors
The Kill Artist (Gabriel Al...
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The Confessor (Gabriel Allo...
4.22 avg rating — 36,793 ratings — published 2003 — 82 editions
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The English Girl (Gabriel A...
4.18 avg rating — 36,889 ratings — published 2013 — 90 editions
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House of Spies (Gabriel All...
4.31 avg rating — 34,564 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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The New Girl (Gabriel Allon...
4.28 avg rating — 33,847 ratings — published 2019 — 66 editions
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Series by Daniel Silva

The Kill Artist The English Assassin The Confessor A Death in Vienna Prince of Fire The Messenger The Secret Servant
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Quotes by Daniel Silva  (?)
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“I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before." -Gabriel Allon”
― Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant
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“To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan?”
― Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant
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“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”
― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season
tags: alcohol, funny, humor
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Polls

Which of these books by Daniel Silva would you like to read together in November?
Daniel Silva

The Unlikely Spy
 
  11 votes, 47.8%

The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2)
 
  6 votes, 26.1%

A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)
 
  3 votes, 13.0%

A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)
 
  3 votes, 13.0%

Prince of Fire (Gabriel Allon, #5)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Messenger (Gabriel Allon, #6)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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