#1 New York Times Bestseller ?The pace of ?The Cellist? never slackens as its action
volleys from Zurich to Tel Aviv to Paris and beyond. Mr. Silva tells his story with zest wit
and superb timing and he engineers enough surprises to startle even the most attentive
reader.??Wall Street Journal 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.
