The Fall of Vivaldi, by Reed Bunzel
The Fall of Vivaldi, by Reed Bunzel
On a rainy night across Europe, several seemingly unrelated incidents unfold in quick order:
- In the City of Light, a beautiful young Parisian newscaster named Gabrielle Lamoines is brutally murdered in her bed, just as…
- A disgraced British billionaire takes a dive from the top floor terrace of the luxury resort on the island of Cyprus, at the same time that…
- Reporter Carter Logan causes the death of a former lieutenant of the Italian mafia in a narrow street in Rome, not far from…
- The Tuscan farmhouse where Alessandro Bortolotti, the head of a hard-right neofascist movement, is plotting a deadly attack on the G20 global summit, while…
- A notorious Russian Oligarch named Georgy Sokolov plans to auction off a kidnapped American teen named Abby Evans in an online event streamed from his villa on the island of Ibiza.
These random, disparate scenarios all eventually will go through one man: former assassin Rōnin Phythian. One year after shutting down the murder-for-hire outfit known as the Greenwich Global Group, he now is pursuing justice for the victims of his crimes, while seeking vengeance against those who engaged his services. Once known as “the deadliest man alive” because of his highly attenuated extrasensory competence, he still possesses an extraordinary mental skillset that can put an end to the treachery, violence, and depravity…