Dante's Numbers

It was a warm, golden evening in Rome�a night filled with anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new film version of Dante�s *Inferno*. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film�s star was missing�and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson�s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo�the first of Dante�s nine circles of Hell.
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