The Fall of Vivaldi by Reed Bunzel

Author:Reed Bunzel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery. 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
Publisher: Epicenter Press Inc.
Published: 2024-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

Phythian had switched from caffeine to mineral water when they sat down, but he had yet to touch the glass that the young woman with the long lashes and glossy red lips had set in front of him. “I trust you didn’t have any trouble running this,” he said as he took a cursory glance at the single sheet of paper.

“It’s what I do,” Moravec waved him off. “As you’ll see, it’s just a basic data merge. Victim’s name, line of work he or she was involved in, location and method of death. Along with the specific tarot card found at each scene, and the date of the killing.”

The two men were seated at a sidewalk café on a quiet street just a couple blocks from the Czech embassy on Avenue Charles Flouquet. Moravec had not been surprised to hear Phythian’s voice when he had called last evening, even though Interpol reports still listed his American friend as dead. Not surprised because it was Moravec who, several months ago, had provided him with new passports—Swiss, Dutch, Canadian, and Irish—and had procured the safety deposit boxes in Athens and Cairo. Boxes into which thousands of Euros in small notes had been stashed.

Phythian gave a cursory glance up and down the street. This being Paris, he assumed he would be within view of at least a dozen surveillances cameras at any one moment. Nothing he could do about that, other than keep his face turned low, eyes shaded by a pair of Ray-Bans and a Basque beret he’d picked up in a thrift shop. He’d also turned his collar up against the afternoon, which had grown chilly, with a steady breeze blowing down the Seine—and if he got really paranoid, he could always use the surgical face mask left over from the pandemic that he always carried with him.

Fortunately, the sidewalks were filled with men and women hustling from one place to another, blocking the AI software from making a positive ID, or so he hoped. He was less concerned with the pedestrians themselves, since none of them seemed to be paying him any mind as they went about their respective routines. If anyone was looking for him specifically, he would know.

He glanced down at the single sheet of paper his Czech friend had given him, studied the names and accompanying information:

• Stephane Kroeger / 48 / President/IMF / shot / Nice / The Magician / Dec. 28

• Alain Geiger / 49 / pharmaceuticals / Zurich / shot twice / The Sun / Jan. 18

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