Award-winning Daniel Silva: “My new book ‘An Inside Job’ is my 28th. Each hit the best-seller list. I’m now in airports and hotel rooms publicizing it.”

Translated into 30 languages, this latest in his international Gabriel Allon spy series is about the Vatican robbery of a papal masterpiece.

Silva: “HarperCollins’ schedule is only six months to write. To survive I do similar things constantly. Same clothes, sleep three hours, up early because my head’s working. I work all day, every day, seven days a week. My phone’s in a different room, the Internet’s ignored, distractions are cut. I focus. I stay at it all the time to get it done.

“While writing I........

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