With his third thriller, The Marching Season, Silva turned to the troubles in Northern Ireland. For a Publishers Weekly contributor, the book is a 'creditable page-turner.' Similarly, Wes Lukowsky, writing in Booklist, called the novel an 'exciting, engrossing thriller.' CIA operative Michael Osbourne finds himself at the focal point of both plot lines and risks his life and that of his wife to settle old scores with October, a nemesis once responsible for the death of his girlfriend.

With his second thriller, The Mark of the Assassin, Silva juggles plot lines involving a terrorist named October, who is bombing airliners, and a government conspiracy to use such outrages to put a missile defense system into place. Reed, in People, praised Silva for doing 'his homework, mixing fact and fiction to delicious effect,' while Barbara Conaty in the Library Journal hailed The Unlikely Spy as 'a totally engrossing account.' A Publishers Weekly reviewer found that The Unlikely Spy 'will find an audience among devoted readers of WWII thrillers, and deservedly so.' J.D. Chief among the enemy spies is a woman named Catherine Blake, who is assigned to seduce and betray a young American engineer working on the Normandy project. Churchill asks an academic, Professor Alfred Vicary, to help ferret out the Germans and prevent them from conveying this vital information to their homeland. Prime Minister Winston Churchill becomes aware that a group of Nazi spies in England have learned of the Allied plans to invade France via Normandy rather than Calais-the decoy location. His first novel, The Unlikely Spy, is set in England, near the close of World War II. SIDELIGHTS:įormer television journalist and producer Daniel Silva has established himself as a major voice in the espionage fiction genre. The Secret Servant, Putnam (New York, NY), 2007. The Messenger, Putnam (New York, NY), 2006. Prince of Fire, Putnam (New York, NY), 2005. The Confessor, Putnam (New York, NY), 2003.Ī Death in Vienna, Putnam (New York, NY), 2004. The English Assassin, Putnam (New York, NY), 2002. The Kill Artist, Random House (New York, NY), 2000. The Marching Season, Random House (New York, NY), 1999. The Mark of the Assassin, Random House (New York, NY), 1998. The Unlikely Spy, Villard ( New York, NY), 1996. Has appeared on television programs, including The Today Show.

United Press International, staff member, 1984-88 Cable News Network (CNN), Atlanta, GA, executive producer of political news programs, including International Hour, World Today, Prime News, Crossfire, The Capital Gang, Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics Weekend, 1988-97. Newspaper and television journalist, writer. Agent-Esther Newberg, International Creative Management, 40 W. Education: San Francisco State University, graduate study. Born 1960, in MI married Jamie Gangel (a broadcast journalist), 1987 children: Lily, Nicholas (twins).

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