Dell
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Featuring: Nic Costa; Emily Deacon
496 pages ISBN: 0440242185 EAN: 9780440242185 Paperback Add to Wish List
Under the Pantheonβs great dome, a womanβs body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back. This horrific murder hurtles Romeβs police force into a collision with U.S. agents -- and a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now unraveling in the worldβs most enigmatic city. When Detective Nic Costa arrives at the scene, he is unprepared for what he finds, or for the ambush that leaves his only witness vanished into the night. The dead woman was American. Within hours, U.S. agents descend with a take- no-prisoners style and a shocking story to tell: the killer has struck before, in monuments all over the world, leaving the same cryptic message carved onto the bodies of the victims.
But one agent, beautiful, blond Emily Deacon, has yet another story to tell Nic -- about a stunning act of deception that may lead back to the U.S. government, and her own chilling, personal connection to the killer. Now, as the first murder leads to more grisly slayings and a motley crew of veteran Roman cops jousts with the Americans, Nic is pulled into a womanβs harrowing search for the truth -- a search that will take them both into the mind of a madman, into a shocking conspiracy -- and into a dark episode in a nationβs long-forgotten past.
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