His past 12 books, all featuring enigmatic spy/art restorer Gabriel Allon, have kept Silva's name high in the ranks; the latest, the Vatican-set The Fallen Angel, seems unlikely to reverse the trend.

Daniel Silva is the award-winning, number one New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, and The English Spy. His books are published in more than.