The Bisauli Today Show – The English Spy

Daniel Silva kicks off his 2015 tour with a visit to NBC’s Today show.

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CBS This Morning

Day two of my 2014 tour began at CBS This Morning, where I had a wonderful time talking about The Heist and some real life art theft. Full video is now available here:

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Morning Joe — The Heist

Day three of my tour began with MSNBC’s Morning Joe. We had a good time talking about my author photo, then turned to the more serious topics of the Syrian civil war, the Arab Spring, and the mechanics of real-life art theft. Watch all the way to the end to find out what kind of art Joe Scarborough has up on his walls at home.

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Today Show — The Heist

The on sale date for The Heist has finally arrived! The first stop on my 2014 media tour was NBC’s Today show. I got the chance to talk about the book, my own theory for what really happened to the painting at the center of it, the possibility of an Gabriel Allon movie, and my summer reading picks. Watch the full interview here:

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Good Day New York — The Heist

New York’s Good Day Book Club featured The Heist this week. I had a great time talking about the missing Caravaggio that inspired part of the story and my research and writing process.

 

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Green Brook Country Club

Thank you so much to the great crowd at my second live event, which was held earlier today at the Green Brook Country Club in North Caldwell, NJ.

 

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Signing

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Audiobook excerpt now available

There are just a few days left before publication of The Heist. As my newsletter subscribers and Facebook fans already know, the preface and first chapter are now available to read here on my website and as a download from iBooks.

For the first time ever, I’m also making the first chapter available early in audiobook format, courtesy of Audible.com. You can play the except, performed by George Guidall, using the player below. To pre-order the audiobook in its entirety, please click here.

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The Heist Excerpt Now Available

With one month to go until publication of The Heist, I’m very happy to share the preface, which gives you a sense of where the story begins. The only other thing I can share for now is that immediately after reading this page, you will be transported to the gallery of the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood who is about to find himself in a bit of trouble.

On October 18, 1969, Caravaggio’s Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrencevanished from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily. The Nativity, as it is commonly known, is one of Caravaggio’s last great masterworks, painted in 1609 while he was a fugitive from justice, wanted by papal authorities in Rome for killing a man during a swordfight. For more than four decades, the altarpiece has been the most sought-after stolen painting in the world, and yet its exact whereabouts, even its fate, have remained a mystery. Until now…

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