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Violence
Some
Moderate violence — intelligence operations; the financial network's enforcers
Language
Barely any
Mild
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Russian money as a weapon — the billionaire's network; what Valentina risks; Gabriel's effort to expose the system, not just the man
What this book is about
Valentina, a cellist at a Swiss music festival, discovers that her billionaire patron is at the center of a Russian money-laundering network that funds disinformation and corrupts politicians across Europe. Gabriel Allon recruits her to expose the network from within. The Cellist is the twenty-first Gabriel Allon novel — Silva's most focused examination of Russian financial warfare against Western democracies.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Russian money laundering and disinformation campaigns
A woman going undercover in a financial crime network
Twenty-first in the Gabriel Allon series
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