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Prince of Fire: Summary and book reviews of Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva, plus links to an excerpt from Prince of Fire and a biography of Daniel Silva.

Prince of Fire

Prince of Fire
by Daniel Silva
Hardcover: Feb 2005,
384 pages.
Paperback: Feb 2006,
400 pages.

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Gabriel Allon faces his most determined enemy—and greatest challenge—in the stunning new novel from the "world-class practitioner of spy fiction" (The Washington Post)

Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon.

Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in the hands of terrorists that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history. Hastily recalled home to Israel, drawn once more into the heart of a service he had once forsaken, Gabriel Allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist across a landscape drenched in generations of blood, along a trail that keeps turning in upon itself, until, finally, he can no longer be certain who is stalking whom. And when at last the inevitable showdown comes, it's not Gabriel alone who is threatened with destruction--for it is not his history alone that has been laid bare.

A knife-edged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling, filled with exhilarating prose, this is Daniel Silva's finest novel yet.

Media Reviews

  Publishers Weekly
A passionate, intelligently crafted entry that cements the series' place among today's top spy fiction.....This series is getting better with each new entry.

  Booklist
In a story that seems ripped from the headlines, Silva delivers both chilling suspense and a thoughtful if grim history lesson.

  Jewish Journal - Morton L Tricher
Silva's meticulous research and his outstanding writing skills combine to make this new book a worthy addition to the Gabriel Allon series and serves to boost his well-deserved reputation.

Recent Reader Reviews

Rated 5 of 5 of 5 by Teach
The Prince of Fire
Prince of Fire was perhaps the best thriller I have read. The plot was amazing and the writing was deeply nuanced. But for me, I enjoyed the constant mentioning and explaining of both an Arab and a Jewish mentality. The conflict although not...   Read More

Rated 4 of 5 of 5 by Jackie
Prince of Fire
This is one of the best book I have read. However I didn't understand some of the words so it may be a little difficult for "unexperienced" readers. Overall the book was very good.

Daniel Silva's Bibliography

First novel, featuring Alfred Vicary, a brilliant but bumbling professor, set in WWII
  • The Unlikely Spy (1995)
Two novels about Michael Osbourne, a CIA Case Agent
  • The Mark of the Assassin (1998)
  • The Marching Season (1999)
The Gabriel Allon novels 
  • The Kill Artist (2000)
  • The English Assassin (2002)*
  • The Confessor (2003)*
  • A Death in Vienna (2004)*
  • Prince of Fire (2005)
  • The Messenger (July 2006)
*Silva describes these books as 'an accidental trilogy dealing with the...

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