Nic Costa #7
Delacorte Press
April 2009
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Featuring: Nic Costa
400 pages ISBN: 0385341482 EAN: 9780385341486 Hardcover Add to Wish List
It was a warm, golden evening in Rome—a night filled with
anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new
film version of Dante’s Inferno. From around the
world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the
paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the
event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was
missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David
Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic
Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds
himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and
terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of
Hell. While Dante had Beatrice as his guide,
Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored
American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides
that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of
protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As
the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—
Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is
pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier
and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives
are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove
of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also
joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again,
leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s
deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred
Hitchcock.
Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic
must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels
in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises.
But it may already be too late. As evidence points to
connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman
policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot
quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in
around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and
punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….
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