Cellist - A Novel

#1New York TimesBestseller

The pace of The Cel-list never slack-ens as its ac-tion vol-leys from Zurich to Tel Aviv to Paris and be-yond. Mr. Silva tells his story with zest, wit and su-perb tim-ing, and he en-gi-neers enough sur-prises to star-tle even the most at-ten-tive reader. Wall Street Journal

Viktor Orlov had a long-standing appointment with death. Once Russias richest man, he now resides in exile in London, where he is waging a crusade against the kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansionis protected by armed bodyguards. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russias vengeful president finally manages to cross Orlovs name off his kill list.

Before him was the receiver from his landline telephone, a half-drunk glass of red wine, and a stack of documents.

The documents are contaminated with a deadly Russian nerve agent. The Metropolitan Police determine that they were delivered by one of Orlovs employees, a prominent investigative reporter. And when the reporter vanishes hours after the killing, MI6 concludes she is a Moscow Center assassin who penetrated the billionaires formidable defenses. But legendary spymaster Gabriel Allon believes his friends in British intelligence are dangerously mistaken. His search for the truth in this high-stakes espionage thriller will take him to Geneva, where a private intelligence service is plotting an act of violence that will plunge an already divided America into chaos. Only Allon, with the help of abrilliant young womanemployed by the worlds dirtiest bank, can stop it.