Daniel Silva
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Daniel Silva was born in Michigan in 1960. While pursuing a master's degree in international relations, he received a temporary job with United Press International to help cover the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Soon after, he left his graduate program to work full-time for United Press mehr anzeigen International. He worked in San Francisco and Washington, D. C. and as a Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the Persian Gulf. He was working at CNN when his first novel, The Unlikely Spy, was published. In 1997. He then left CNN to become a full-time author. His novels include The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Other Woman, and other titles in the Gabriel Allon series. He won the Barry Award for Best Thriller for The Messenger in 2006. In 2014 he made The New York Times Best Seller List with The Heist and The English Spy made the list in 2015. The Black Widow is his latest bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Daniel Silva Gabriel Allon CD Collection: Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon Series) (2008) 19 Exemplare
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- Silva, Daniel
- Geburtstag
- 1960-12-19
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- male
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- USA
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- Michigan, USA
- Wohnorte
- Michigan, USA
Kalifornien, USA
Kairo, Ägypten
Washington, D.C., USA - Ausbildung
- Fresno State University
San Francisco State University - Berufe
- Journalist
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- Gangel, Jamie (Ehefrau)
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- United Press International
CNN - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Barry Award for Best Thriller (2007 ∙ 2013)
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- Esther Newberg
- Kurzbiographie
- Er wurde in Michigan geboren, wichs in Kalibornien auf, erwarb einen Master in internationaler Politik und arbeitete zunächst für United Press International bei der Vorbereitung der Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Later that year Silva abandoned his studies and joined UPI fulltime, working first in San Francisco, then on the foreign desk in Washington, and finally as Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the Persian Gulf. In 1987, while covering the Iran-Iraq war, he met NBC Today National Correspondent Jamie Gangel and they were married later that year. Silva returned to Washington and went to work for CNN and became Executive Producer of its talk show unit including shows like Crossfire, Capital Gang and Reliable Sources.
In 1995 he confessed to Jamie that his true ambition was to be a novelist. With her support and encouragement he secretly began work on the manuscript that would eventually become the instant bestseller The Unlikely Spy. He left CNN in 1997 after the book’s successful publication and began writing full time. Since then all of Silva's books have been New York Times and international bestsellers. His books have been translated in to more than 25 languages and are published around the world. Silva continues to reside in Washington with his wife and teenage twins Lily and Nicholas. When not writing he can usually be found roaming the stacks of the Georgetown University library, where he does much of the research for his books. He is currently at work on a new Gabriel Allon novel and warmly thanks all those friends and loyal readers who have helped to make the series such an amazing success.
Daniel Silva, his wife, and children, live in Washington, DC.
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Es geht um einen Schweizer Bankier und die Rolle der Nazis bzw. Hermann Göring bei der Plünderung jüdischer Kunstwerke und deren Einlagerung in Tresoren der Schweizer Banken. Besonders gelungen und lesenswert empfand ich den Vergleich zwischen der aktuellen Tätigkeit des israelischen Agenten Gabriel Allon als Gemälderestaurator mit der Recherchearbeit als Spion, die sich in ihren offenen Grundstrukturen stark ähneln.
"Der Engländer" ist ein Auftragskiller und liefert sich mit Gabriel Allon, dem Agenten des Mossad, einen atemlos spannenden Plot um die Vertuschung der Rolle einiger reicher (gieriger) Eidgenossen, deren Netzwerk unknackbar scheint. Nachdem ich zwei andere Romane um Gabriel Allon (Der Zeuge, Die Loge) gelesen hatte, fühlt man die Unverletzbarkeit des Helden - insgesamt tut es dem Roman jedoch keinen Abbruch.
Wichtig sind hier auch die spannenden Hintergründe um die sogenannte Beutekunst und deren verschlungene
Wege, die bis heute nicht gänzlich aufgeklärt sind. Und wirklich überraschend ist das Ende, ein Schluss, den man so nicht erwarten würde.… (mehr)