About this book
The Unlikely Spy, published in 1996, was Daniel Silva's 544-page debut, a World War II thriller built around the Allied deception effort ahead of D-Day and a British intelligence officer racing to unmask a deep-cover German agent.
Key facts about The Unlikely Spy
The Unlikely Spy is a book by Daniel Silva. Readers have had it since 1996. It runs to 544 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Unlikely Spy. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780451209306 to find the main one.
Daniel Silva has 29 books in our catalogue. 26 of them belong to a series, while 3 stand alone. All 29 are out now. Other books by Daniel Silva on file include An Inside Job (2025), A Death in Cornwall (2024), The Collector (2023) and Portrait of an Unknown Woman (2022).
After it came The Mark of the Assassin in 1998. Since then, our list has added 28 more books by Daniel Silva.
Daniel Silva has 1 series on file, Gabriel Allon. 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.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451209306
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780449459386
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786211012