β Travena Terry
π Fiction
π
2020
π English
β 164 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
The American
β Scribed by Nadia Dalbuono
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1925307026
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The second Leone Scamarcio thriller.
As autumn sets in, the queues outside the soup kitchens of Rome are lengthening, and the people are taking to the piazzas, increasingly frustrated by the deepening economic crisis.
Detective Leone Scamarcio is called to an apparent suicide on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, a stone's throw from Vatican City. A man is hanging from the bridge, his expensive suit suggesting yet another businessman fallen on hard times. But Scamarcio is immediately troubled by similarities with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, dubbed 'God's Banker' because of his work for the Vatican Bank.
Scamarcio's instincts are soon proved correct when a cardinal with links to the bank is killed. And when US Intelligence warn Scamarcio to drop his investigation, he knows that the stakes are far higher than he first realised.
Ignoring their threats, Scamarcio pushes on, but his progress is being monitored by some of the world's most powerful...
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