Daniel Silva's THE CELLIST

 

Daniel Silva’s The Cellist is as up to date as you can get. You are placed in a world where a US president who has cozied up to Russia has been defeated, but is still hollering about stolen elections.  He is unnamed, as is his successor, who is waiting to be inaugurated and has promised to both heal his own country and the Western Alliances. Gabriel Allon,  who is still the head of Israel’s secret service, has hatched a complicated and risky plan to bankrupt a soviet oligarch and eliminate a major money laundering operation. At the center of the plot is an attractive talented cellist and money manipulator.  She plays sublimely in reality and in her head, while all the other participants are play each other.  Every character has multiple identities and hidden motivations, while the action ping pongs across the world between England, Holland, Israel,  Switzerland, and Washington DC. If you have read any of Silva’s previous books, you will not be disappointed in this one.