The best is Zcash. It's just a sleeping giant. The team and the orgasiness are very good. It may be playing with misery now. But in the future, the monte will play the cristo counterpart.
Not really the best. It has three issues:
1. Trusted setup--this can be redone in a better way--though ultimately, you would want to be a participant and be very sure of your OPSEC. So this can be improved, though still not great unless they can remove the trusted part completely.
2. Optional privacy--this was a moronic choice and the cryptographers (Mathew Green, etc) should be ashamed it ever happened--it limited the anonymity set and led to diminished privacy for those who actually used the privacy feature. It's so dumb, that given Green's award winning research, it comes across as intentional and something they tried to slip by the users, while at the same time undermining their security. Luckily they plan to fix it.
3. You can't audit the supply--this means that the supply could grow unbeknownst to users because of a bug or an attack. This can't be fixed, so I might use Zcash when they fix the other 2, but I'll never hold much of it as the risk isn't worth it.
There are other things, but those are the big three.
Also, the Count of Monte Cristo was one character and Monte Cristo a place, so maybe you meant Dantes to the Count of Monte Cristo as that is his transition from dupe to avenger. Not sure who Zcash would be avenging as they were the ones who fucked up--maybe they fire Zooko and Green and the other idiots collecting 200k a month--notice I'm not calling them idiots because they are unequivocally dumb, but in respect to Zcash's development, they made very obvious mistakes, whether they were intentional or not is beside the point, as they were dumb to think no one would notice if indeed it was intentional--if it was because they couldn't see the flaws in the first place, they shouldn't be in charge of anything that requires foresight as their expertise obviously aren't enough to save them from their obliviousness (reading Zooko's tweets points to the latter).
