Daniel Silva Books in Order (Gabriel Allon, Michael Osbourne)

A former journalist for United Press International and CNN, Daniel Silva is today mostly known for his work as a bestselling writer of thriller and espionage novels. Silva always wanted to write, but it was not after a good decade working as a journalist that he tried his hand at writing a novel. His first book was published in 1996 and became an instant success. Less than a year late, he left CNN to become a full-time writer. His main series is about Gabriel Allon, an Israeli art restorer, spy, and assassin who works against Russian spies or Islamist terrorists while navigating the art world. Previously, he also wrote two books about CIA agent Michael Osbourne.

How to read Daniel Silva’s Books in Order?

Reading The Gabriel Allon Series in Order

Ex-Israeli intelligence operative, Gabriel Allon now lives under the cover of an Italian art restorer, Mario Delvecchio, in Cornwall, while working for a London-based art dealer. Of course, Gabriel is pulled back into the world of espionage and must stop terrorists when he doesn’t work in the art world. If you want to know more about the Gabriel Allon Series, take a look at our Gabriel Allon Reading Order.

1. The Kill Artist (2000)
2. The English Assassin (2002)
3. The Confessor (2003)
4. A Death in Vienna (2004)
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)

Reading The Michael Osbourne Books in Order

1. The Mark of the Assassin (1998) – When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the east coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin. Only agent Michael Osbourne has seen the markings before-on a woman he once loved. Now, it’s personal for Osbourne. Consumed by his dark obsession with the assassin, he’s willing to risk his family, his career, and his life-to settle a score…
2. The Marching Season (1999) – When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered with three savage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into the depths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated to become the new American ambassador to London, retired CIA agent Michael Osbourne is drawn back into the game. He soon discovers that his father-in-law is marked for execution. And that he himself is once again in the crosshairs of a killer known only as October, one of the most merciless assassins the world has ever known…

Reading Other Daniel Silva novels

• The Unlikely Spy (1996) – “In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent. Catherine Blake is the beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer-and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler: uncover the Allied plans for D-Day…

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