On a warm, golden evening in Rome, celebrities and paparazzi gather at the Villa Borghese as a legendary director premieres his long-anticipated film version of Dante s Infer. But minutes later the scene is chaos: A man lies dead, the film s star is missing, and a priceless relic has vanished. As the premiere shifts locations from Rome to San Francisco detective Nic Costa finds himself on U.S. shores for the first time, charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, as well as an American film actress, Maggie Flavier. When a killer indeed strikes, and with Flavier in danger, Costa races to unravel the chilling clues that connect Dante s nine circles of Hell to the shattering revelations of Alfred Hitchcock s Vertigo. But he may be too late. For a cunning plot is closing in around Costa, guided by a poet s ancient vision of sin and punishment and a killer s genius for terror. Previously published as Dante's Numbers.
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Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
ISBN-10
0385341490
ISBN-13
9780385341493
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183153914
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Format
Paperback / Softback, Mass Market (Rack) Paperback,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Author
David Hewson
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Place of Publication
New York
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
David Hewson is the author of ten novels. Formerly a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times, he lives in Kent, England, where he is at work on his next crime novel, Bitter Mountain.From the Hardcover edition.