From Daniel Silva the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a
timely and explosive new thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon.
Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia's richest man he now
resides in splendid exile in London where he has waged a tireless crusade against the
authoritarian kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion in Chelsea's
exclusive Cheyne Walk is one of the most heavily protected private dwellings in London. Yet
somehow on a rainy summer evening in the midst of a global pandemic Russia's vengeful
president finally manages to cross Orlov's 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 nerve agent. The Metropolitan Police determine that
they were delivered to Orlov's home by one of his employees a prominent investigative reporter
from the anti-Kremlin Moskovskaya Gazeta. And when the reporter slips from London hours after
the killing MI6 concludes she is a Moscow Center assassin who has cunningly penetrated Orlov's
formidable defenses.But Gabriel Allon who owes his very life to Viktor Orlov believes his
friends in British intelligence are dangerously mistaken. His desperate search for the truth
will take him from London to Amsterdam and eventually to Geneva where a private intelligence
service controlled by a childhood friend of the Russian president is using KGB-style ?active
measures? to undermine the West from within. Known as the Haydn Group the unit is plotting an
unspeakable act of violence that will plunge an already divided America into chaos and leave
Russia unchallenged. Only Gabriel Allon with the help of a brilliant young woman employed by
the world's dirtiest bank can stop it.Elegant and sophisticated provocative and daring The
Cellist explores one of the preeminent threats facing the West today?the corrupting influence
of dirty money wielded by a revanchist and reckless Russia. It is at once a novel of hope and a
stark warning about the fragile state of democracy. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva
is regarded as his generation's finest writer of suspense and international intrigue.
