The Black Widow
- Published
- 12 July 2016
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9780007552351
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Black Widow (July 2016) is the sixteenth entry, 528 pages, preceding House of Spies. Daniel Silva grounds this stretch of the series in the fight against terrorism, one of the real-world flashpoints — alongside Russian disinformation and the rise of the European far right — the later books increasingly draw on.
Key facts about The Black Widow
Daniel Silva wrote The Black Widow, a novel on our list. It has been out since 12 July 2016. The book has 528 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007552351 to find the main one.
The Black Widow is book 16 of 26 in the Gabriel Allon series. The series has 26 published books. However, the series starts with The Kill Artist (2000). Ransom is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 14 July 2026.
That series sits on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Ransom is the latest published Daniel Silva book on file, from 14 July 2026.
About Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva is an American thriller writer and former journalist whose career gave him the research instincts that define his fiction. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1960, he worked for UPI as a Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the Persian Gulf before becoming an executive producer at CNN, where he met NBC/CNN correspondent Jamie Gangel while both were covering the region; they married in 1987. See every Daniel Silva book in order.
Its place in Gabriel Allon
The Black Widow is book 16 in the Gabriel Allon series. It follows The English Spy. It is followed by House of Spies. See the full Gabriel Allon reading order.
Gabriel Allon is an Israeli intelligence officer and the finest art restorer of his generation, a man who spends his days coaxing Old Masters back to life and his other life eliminating threats to Israel and the West. Daniel Silva builds each novel around a real-world flashpoint — Palestinian terrorism, Russian disinformation, Vatican secrets, art-world forgery and theft, the war in Ukraine, the rise of the far right in Europe — and drops Allon into it as a reluctant, weary operator who would rather be restoring…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062472342
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007552351