Scope:  Daniel Silva was a journalist who covered political conflicts and terrorism in the Midde East before he began his writing career.  His first book, The Unlikely Spy, a World War II spy thriller, was published in 1994

Representative Titles: 

The Black Widow:  After ISIS tetonates  a bomb in Paris, the French government calls upon Gabriel Allon, spy and assassin, to find those responsible for the vicious attack.  Gabriel procures agent Natalie Mizrahi, a beautiful and beguiling doctor, to pose as an ISIS recruit.

House of Spies:  Assassin Gabriel Allon’s next quest is for the mastermind behind ISIS called Saladin

The Rembrandt Affair:  A Rembrandt painting is stolen from a gallery in the English city of Glastonbury and an art restorer has been murdered. Gabriel Allon travels through the cities of Amsterdam, Buenas Aries, and Lake Geneva in an attempt to recover the painting and find those responsible for the crime

Series:  Gabriel Allon

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