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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Cellist: A Novel (Gabriel Allon Book 21) (edizione 2021)di Daniel Silva (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. If you like socialist, progressive propaganda, this is the book for you. Enough said. ( ) Yet another installment of Daniel Silva's Law & Order, ripped from the headlines, series following the illustrious Gabriel Allon as Israel's superhero. This time the focus is Russia. They've been poisoning emigres in London, stealing state assets and hiding them in the West, pushing opponents out of high-rise windows in thinly disguised suicides, pampering oligarchs and targeting misinformation to topple foreign regimes. Silva never mentions Putin or Trump but the descriptions leave no doubt as to who he is referring to. Their partner in crime is the dirty RhineBank but in the acknowledgements Silva names Deutsche Bank as the complicit partner in all the bad stuff. Since Jan 6th occurred before this book was to be published the final chapters were hastily rewritten to fit the latest headlines. Too juicy to ignore. And the Russian link was too easy to pass up on. Q had to be Russian. And of course there's the damsel in distress who turns out to be both a brilliant beautiful, compliance officer at RhineBank who has turned away from a life where she could have been a concert cellist to the much more lucrative world of finance. But RhineBank is more interested in lucrative profits than listening to a woman telling them there's too much risk. She eventually tires of being overruled and decides to blindly sign off on all the deals she knows she shouldn't. Too talented to get rid of she earns the right to pick her assignment. She chooses to head for the center of the dirty dealing, the so-called Russian laundromat, the division of RhineBank where the money gets laundered. She kicks things off by giving incriminating copies to a journalist known for her anti-Russian writing. Things don't go well and she and the journalist become unwitting accomplices to a Russian assassination of a wealthy Russian émigré who had gotten Gabriel and his wife out of a Russian jail. Yes Gabriel's past always pops up in the latest adventure. Speaking of the past, many of the usual suspects make cameo appearances, Ari, Chiara, Eli, Julian, etc. And the bevy of women who've fallen for Gabriel show up. This time Sarah Bancroft seems to kick off this story, selling art to the Russian émigré, only to fade into the background. And yes Gabriel's skills as an art restorer are employed. We even get to revisit his time spent with a concert pianist who of course has never forgiven him for abandoning her. But these are sub plots, The real story is financial. Lots of hidden assets, layers of shadow corporations, and the constant trade matching. Who knew? While I'm sure that's the way the game was played they make much less interesting reading than the usual blow things up events. But Jan 6th was just too tempting to ignore. It fit in perfectly as a plot the Russians were behind. I won't spill the beans so the real plot twist will still come as a surprise. It's a very quick read, as usual. The Cellist is a book that is insufferable in certain parts. It is long and goes on and on with nothing happening insofar as plot goes. The story follows global politics prior to and during the 2020 presidential election. The conclusion of the book is worth the slow moving parts. The author succinctly sums up the United States political situation during the 2020 election proving that the Russians really did meddle in the U.S. election. Four stars were given to this book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieGabriel Allon (21)
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: 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 todayâ??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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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