Daniel Silva · 2021 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2021 novel. When the exiled Russian dissident Viktor Orlov is murdered in London, Gabriel Allon refuses to believe the obvious suspect. His search for the truth runs from London to Amsterdam to Geneva and the world's dirtiest bank - and uncovers a Kremlin-backed plot, aided by a brilliant cellist turned whistle-blower, to plunge a divided America into chaos.

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   London

   Viktor Orlov, once Russia's richest man and now its most tireless enemy in exile, is found dead in London, poisoned by tainted documents delivered to his study - and British intelligence blames the wrong assassin.

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   Amsterdam

   Certain his friends at MI6 are mistaken, Allon takes up the true trail, which runs from London to Amsterdam as he pieces together the story behind Orlov's death and the dirty money that killed him.

3. 3
   Geneva

   In Geneva he finds the world's dirtiest bank and, within it, a private intelligence unit run by a friend of the Russian president - the Haydn Group, laundering the Kremlin's money and its influence into the West.

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   Washington

   With the help of a brilliant young cellist and banker turned whistle-blower, Allon races to stop the group's true design: an unthinkable act of violence meant to plunge a bitterly divided America into chaos.