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Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva

Prince of Fire

by Daniel Silva
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  • Feb 22, 2005, 384 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Feb 2006, 400 pages
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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  *Silva describes these books as 'an accidental trilogy dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust.'

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