For fans of Dan Brown’s Inferno, a sensational Italian thriller starring Dante Alighieri as lead detective.
A troubled quest, an ambitious politician, a brutal killer.
Italy, October 1301. Dante Alighieri, Prior to the city of Florence, is sent to Rome to meet with the Pope. Sinister omens greet his arrival; the river Tiber is threatening to burst its banks and the corpses of several young woman have been found eviscerated and ritually murdered.
Dante has no power to order an investigation but when the authorities show little interest in the deaths he promises the mother of one victim that he will bring the murderer to justice.
But when Dante visits the Vatican, and makes the acquaintance of an ambitious senator named Spada, he discovers that the city hides yet more dark secrets...
- ISBN10 0099549042
- ISBN13 9780099549048
- Publish Date 2 June 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 560
- Language English