Where to Start with Daniel Silva
- Best entry point → The Unlikely Spy
- Start the Gabriel Allon series → The Kill Artist
- What fans keep coming back to → The English Assassin
- Best narrator for Daniel Silva → Portrait of an Unknown Woman
- Highest rated by listeners → The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon #16)
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The Black Widow
Gabriel Allon • Book 16
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.51 ABR Score (45.2K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (38.2K) ★ 4.53 Audible (7.0K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon goes undercover to infiltrate ISIS after a Paris bombing, using art restoration skills for espionage. George Guidall balances the intellectual spy work with visceral terrorism threats.
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House of Spies
Gabriel Allon • Book 17
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.51 ABR Score (39.6K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (35.1K) ★ 4.58 Audible (4.5K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon hunts the ISIS mastermind called Saladin across Europe and North Africa, assembling a network of operatives for the most personal mission of his career.
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The Other Woman
Gabriel Allon • Book 18
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.35 ABR Score (37.0K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (31.6K) ★ 4.42 Audible (5.5K)More about this pick
A mysterious Frenchwoman's memoir reveals the Kremlin's deepest secret: a mole planted decades ago in the West's intelligence heart, threatening Gabriel Allon's world.
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The Kill Artist
Gabriel Allon • Book 1
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.23 ABR Score (108.3K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (101.2K) ★ 4.28 Audible (7.1K)More about this pick
Guidall's narration follows Gabriel Allon as he's pulled from art restoration back into assassination when his personal vendetta collides with Israeli intelligence.
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The English Spy
Gabriel Allon • Book 15
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.40 ABR Score (35.9K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (31.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (4.1K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon investigates a bombing that kills a princess, leading him into a deadly game with a legendary IRA assassin. George Guidall's measured pace suits the methodical spy work.
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The Confessor
Gabriel Allon • Book 3
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.40 ABR Score (40.8K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (37.4K) ★ 4.49 Audible (3.4K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon investigates a scholar's murder that connects to Vatican secrets about Holocaust collaboration, and John Lee navigates the religious intrigue expertly.
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The English Girl
Gabriel Allon • Book 13
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.41 ABR Score (40.5K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (37.3K) ★ 4.52 Audible (3.1K)More about this pick
British PM Jonathan Lancaster's secret affair becomes a kidnapping nightmare when his lover disappears, and George Guidall handles the political stakes perfectly.
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Gabriel Allon • Book 22
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.41 ABR Score (36.6K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (33.6K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.1K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon investigates art forgeries that lead to international conspiracy, blending Silva's expertise in espionage with the shadowy world of high-stakes art fraud.
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The English Assassin
Gabriel Allon • Book 2
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.31 ABR Score (49.2K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (45.2K) ★ 4.36 Audible (4.0K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon's art restoration work in Switzerland uncovers Nazi collaboration and wartime profiteering that someone will kill to keep buried.
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A Death in Vienna
Gabriel Allon • Book 4
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.42 ABR Score (35.4K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (32.4K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.0K)More about this pick
Art restorer Gabriel Allon investigates a bombing but encounters a face from the Holocaust that changes everything. John Lee's narration handles the emotional weight and historical complexity with appropriate gravity.
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The Rembrandt Affair
Gabriel Allon • Book 10
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Phil Gigante
★ 4.42 ABR Score (41.2K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (37.8K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.3K)More about this pick
Art restorer Gabriel Allon gets pulled into a Nazi-looted painting conspiracy that threatens to topple governments and expose wartime secrets.
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The Heist
Gabriel Allon • Book 14
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.32 ABR Score (34.0K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (30.3K) ★ 4.39 Audible (3.7K)More about this pick
Art dealer Justin Isherwood discovers a murder scene and becomes the prime suspect, forcing Gabriel Allon to investigate a conspiracy involving stolen masterpieces. George Guidall balances artistic detail with thriller pacing expertly.
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The Unlikely Spy
Michael Osbourne
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Michael Page
★ 4.35 ABR Score (30.5K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (27.1K) ★ 4.4 Audible (3.4K)More about this pick
Churchill handpicks a mild history professor to hunt Nazi spies while Germany deploys their most unexpected agent. Page builds tension through every double-cross and near miss.
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The Messenger
Gabriel Allon • Book 6
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Christopher Lane
★ 4.42 ABR Score (35.5K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (32.8K) ★ 4.51 Audible (2.7K)More about this pick
A laptop containing Vatican security photos triggers international espionage networks, with Christopher Lane guiding listeners through the complex web of intelligence agencies and terrorist plots.
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The Secret Servant
Gabriel Allon • Book 7
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Phil Gigante
★ 4.43 ABR Score (33.6K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (31.0K) ★ 4.51 Audible (2.6K)More about this pick
Israeli spy Gabriel Allon races through London's underworld to save a kidnapped woman before terrorists execute their deadliest plot yet. Phil Gigante captures both the ticking-clock urgency and Allon's internal moral struggle.
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The Fallen Angel
Gabriel Allon • Book 12
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.33 ABR Score (33.7K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (30.5K) ★ 4.4 Audible (3.2K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon restores a Caravaggio in the Vatican when a beautiful woman's murder draws him into a conspiracy involving stolen antiquities. George Guidall weaves together art history and espionage with his measured, authoritative voice.
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Moscow Rules
Gabriel Allon • Book 8
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Phil Gigante
★ 4.34 ABR Score (32.6K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (29.4K) ★ 4.39 Audible (3.2K)More about this pick
Silva sends art restorer-turned-spy Gabriel Allon into Putin-era Russia to investigate a journalist's murder. The story captures the dangerous chess game of modern espionage in oil-rich, post-Soviet Moscow.
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Portrait of a Spy
Gabriel Allon • Book 11
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 4.36 ABR Score (36.4K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (33.3K) ★ 4.4 Audible (3.1K)More about this pick
Gabriel Allon's hunt for suicide bombers across London and beyond becomes intensely personal, with Simon Vance's seasoned delivery perfectly matching the veteran spy's weary expertise.
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Prince of Fire
Gabriel Allon • Book 5
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Guerin Barry
★ 4.37 ABR Score (30.5K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (27.9K) ★ 4.47 Audible (2.6K)More about this pick
Guerin Barry narrates as Gabriel Allon faces his most personal threat when terrorists obtain a dossier exposing his deepest secrets and operational history.
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The Mark Of The Assassin
Michael Osbourne • Book 1
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Christopher Lane
★ 4.17 ABR Score (17.6K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (15.0K) ★ 4.24 Audible (2.6K)More about this pick
When a commercial airliner explodes, CIA agent Michael Osbourne recognizes the assassin's calling card—three bullets to the face—from a case involving a woman he once loved.
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An Inside Job
Gabriel Allon • Book 25
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.48 ABR Score (26.1K ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (24.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (1.3K)More about this pick
Art restorer Gabriel Allon discovers a masterpiece is fake, launching him into Venice's shadowy art underworld. Ballerini's sophisticated delivery matches Silva's elegant prose in this latest spy thriller.
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A Death in Cornwall
Gabriel Allon • Book 24
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.39 ABR Score (30.1K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (28.9K) ★ 4.5 Audible (1.2K)More about this pick
Art theft meets international espionage as Gabriel Allon investigates a brutal murder tied to a stolen masterpiece in this latest Silva thriller.
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The Collector
Gabriel Allon • Book 23
by Daniel Silva
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.39 ABR Score (30.8K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (29.9K) ★ 4.49 Audible (969)More about this pick
Art theft meets international espionage as Gabriel Allon partners with a master thief to track down a missing masterpiece that could spark war between Russia and the West.
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