He has authored sixteen titles, about one book per year of his writing career, and his works have been translated to over 30 languages.Īs a writer, Daniel Silva’s work all fall within the thriller genre, being packed with tales of intriguing espionage and detailed specifics on the topic of history, music, and art, which is the result of his devotion to research and experience gain during his travels abroad.

From that moment on, each and every book that Silva wrote became international bestsellers and featured on the list of best-selling books at the New York Times. Having met with a great measure of success on his first try, Silva gladly left CNN a year after his book had been published to focus full time on his writing career. Silva instantly became a bestselling author when his first attempt at a novel, The Unlikely Spy, hit store shelves in 1996, only a year after his work on the writing project had begun. She granted her husband her full support and he secretly started working on his first manuscript. At the time, he was also serving for CNN. It was not until the couple had been married for about eight years, in 1995, that Silva revealed to his wife the fact that being a novelist had been his lifelong desire. Silva’s wife Jamie found work with CNN, becoming an executive producer for several of the network’s popular talk shows, including Reliable Sources and Crossfire. The couple was married during the latter end of 1987 and returned to Washington together, where they resided. While serving in this position, Silva met his soon-to-be wife, Jamie Gangel, who happened to be the national correspondent for NBC Today. The success he experienced in this position inspired Silva to completely abandon his educational goals and accept a full-time job with UPI, eventually serving in Washington on the foreign desk and later heading to the Middle East, where his role was that of a correspondent in the Persian Gulf and Cairo. There he assisted in covering the Democratic National Convention which took place in San Francisco in 1984.

While in route to his degree, he was offered and accepted a job with United Press International. Nevertheless, it pleased Silva to pursue international relations as his major in graduate school. Something inside Silva always told him that he was destined to be a writer clearly his intuitions were well founded. Child of a catholic family, he converted to Judaism as an adult. Although it was in Michigan that he entered the world, Silva spent his childhood in sunny California. At the very beginning of the sixties, a time when social revolution swept across America, Daniel Silva was born.

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