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J M Hochstetler
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Fiction
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2019
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Sheaf House Publishers
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English
β 322 KB
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A Refiner's Fire
β Scribed by Donna Leon
- Book ID
- 115231149
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802162540
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon's magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was
Around one AM on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that twenty years earlier Monforte had been publicly celebrated as the hero of a devastating bombing of the Italian military compound in Iraq. Yet Monforte had never been awarded a medal either by the Carabinieri, his service branch, or by the Italian government.
That seeming contradiction, and the brutal attack on one of Brunetti's colleagues,...
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