Gabriel Allon · Book 2
The English Assassin
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781587241857
- Type
- novel

About this book
The English Assassin (2002), 400 pages, is the second Gabriel Allon novel, continuing Daniel Silva's pattern of grounding each thriller in real-world tradecraft and geopolitics rather than pure escapism. It follows The Kill Artist in publication order, which is the only order this series is meant to be read in.
Its place in Gabriel Allon
The English Assassin is book 2 in the Gabriel Allon series. It follows The Kill Artist. It is followed by The Confessor. 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 9781587241857