Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

A huge, atrocious disappointment. Silva’s early books was some of the best international spy thrillers ever written. His plots twisted and turned, brought readers to the unexpected, but always in potentially possible but totally unforeseen ways. Each book brought new characters and expanded our respectful familiarity with the ongoing characters. Best of all, the reader felt as if this might not really be fiction, that somehow it might be our look at some deeply-buried top secret dossier with the names changed to protect the innocent. Unfortunately, The Cellist is a disaster. It is easily predictable repeat of earlier plot-lines, and that one of its better attributes. Perhaps, if we were as wise as Silva’s secret agent Gabriel Allon we might have seen this coming. The last 3 books have been little more than attacks on the Catholic Church wrapped in mediocre plots. This new book is nothing more than a rabid attack on Donald Trump. I am no Trump fan, but according to Silva, Trump is guilty of every wild conspiracy accusation, all of which were debunked in the Mueller Report. Trump conspires with Putin to have Allon and his agents killed. Trump ensures Putin keeps billions of dollars stolen from the Russian people and causes a crazy Trump-supporting Congresswoman to shoot Allon. In reality, that’s all the book is really about. Some have called this ridiculousness “Obsessive Trump Derangement Syndrome.” That last sentence contains more realty than the entire book. Plot? I knew the outcome by page 17. It’s a shame. It was a great series. I only wish I had stopped reading it 4 books ago.