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Tom Kirk #4
Harper
August 2010
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Featuring: Allegra Damico; Tom Kirk
400 pages
ISBN: 0061671878
EAN: 9780061671876
Mass Market Paperback
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Suspense | Thriller Crime
Masked by the shadows of the Ponte Sant' Angelo, a man is
lowered into the Tiber's freezing waters. As his killers
watch, the swollen current grabs hold of him, sweeping him
downstream until the rope around his neck snaps tight .
Slowly, and with his reflection staring remorselessly back
up at him from the river's dark mirror, the man watches
himself hang. For Lieutenant Allegra Damico, a young officer in the
Carabinieri's art squad, this is only the latest in a series
of gruesome murders that have rocked the Eternal City over
the past three days, where each crime scene is a grisly
re-enactment of a different Caravaggio painting. Only this
new "artist" works in blood, not oils. In Las Vegas, meanwhile, reformed art thief Tom Kirk has
agreed to help the FBI handle the recovery of long lost
masterpiece, stolen by the Mafia in the 1960s. But the
exchange is cut short by gunfire, and when the smoke clears
Tom finds his world turned upside down by a brutal assasination. Vowing revenge, Tom realises that the attack was related to
an Italian antiquities smuggling ring known only as the
Delian League. Journeying to Rome he meets Allegra, who
also finds herself betrayed by the very people she thought
she could trust the most. With the police and the Mafia on their heels and time
running out, they reluctantly team up, knowing that their
only chance of survival is to expose the League before it
can destroy them. What they uncover is a vast and powerful
conspiracy stretching from the earthquake-scarred fields of
Italy to the marbled halls of some of the world's greatest
museums. A conspiracy built on the graves of the dead and the blood
of anyone who dares to stand in its way.
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