By Lorenzo Carcaterra
Kate Westcott, a talented American paintings pupil, has come to Florence to check Michelangelo. Exploring the cobbled streets of the Renaissance urban along with her fellow scholar Marco, Kate feels the pull of future. And while the 2 discover a chamber in a hall sealed because the time of the Medicis, they make a beautiful discovery: Michelangelo’s dead night Angels—three small, beautiful sculptures lengthy rumored to exist yet by no means earlier than obvious. it's the locate of a lifetime—and the start of a nightmare.
Pursued by means of criminals, suspected by means of the Rome artwork Squad, and navigating the underground community of a mystery society, Kate and Marco needs to use all their crafty to guard Michelangelo’s work—and their lives.
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There, he observed the 2 males sitting in a black Mercedes sedan, their faces shielded by means of thick clouds of misty white cigarette smoke. He conscientiously slid his black helmet over his head, cautious to not dislodge an earpiece and cord attachment. “You nonetheless with me? ” he acknowledged right into a small microphone latched to the interior of the helmet. “I can’t go away you now,” Banyon acknowledged in reaction. “You nonetheless owe me for that activity in Tokyo, 3 years in the past. ” Edwards smiled on the reminiscence. “Forget it, my friend,” he stated. “That’s one cost I’ll by no means dwell to chop. You weren’t speculated to be there, bear in mind? ” “And if I hadn’t been, you then wouldn’t be here,” Banyon stated. “They’re 3 vehicles at the back of me,” Edwards acknowledged, “two within the entrance, almost certainly one laying low within the again. ” “You wish them tailed or nailed? ” Banyon requested. “I’ve performed adequate games,” Edwards acknowledged. “He went difficult after Russell, and it’s time we did a similar to his team. ” “Let’s take them out for a experience, then,” Banyon stated. “Head for the autostrada going south towards Rome. I’ll be shut sufficient on their tail to prevent them in the event that they get too with regards to you. ” “There’s a leisure cease approximately ten, might be fifteen kilometers up,” Edwards acknowledged. “I’ll swing into that and forestall for a espresso and the men’s room. If he follows me in, I’ll care for him there. ” “In that case, I’ll do my most sensible to maintain one in every of them alive for you,” Banyon acknowledged. “If it’s in basic terms to be one, then i might recommend or not it's the driver,” Edwards stated. “But who am I to inform a guy like you his enterprise? ” “Keep an eye fixed out for a moment car,” Banyon warned, “either at the streets or up at the giant highway. it'll make experience for them to have a lead vehicle in position. in the event that they don’t, then it’s an easy tail and document. ” “It may possibly nonetheless be that, inspite of cars,” Edwards stated. “The Raven can’t come up with the money for to move all-in on Kate telling him the place the Angels are. I’m his protection web. He has to determine if she tells a person else, will probably be me. ” “Or he may have guessed that you just have already got the Angels,” Banyon acknowledged, “which may make you his basic. ” “There’s relatively just one technique to ever understand something for sure,” Edwards stated, kicking the Ducati into apparatus and venturing into the sunshine site visitors. He checked his mirrors and observed the Mercedes pull out of its spot and simplicity into the lane, a small plumbing truck the one automobile isolating them. He handed Banyon’s black Ferrari and watched as Banyon made a rapid U-turn, smartly dodging an oncoming metro bus to fall in line at the back of the path automobile. “Glad to determine you continue to have all of your reflexes,” Edwards acknowledged, “even at your complicated age. ” “Just wait until eventually you notice me force and shoot,” Banyon stated. “That’s whilst I’m at my best possible. ” “I wish so,” Edwards stated. He stopped at a crimson gentle, published the handlebars of the Ducati, and checked to ensure his handguns have been nonetheless comfy in position, effortless to get to whilst the instant known as. He tilted the motorbike just a little to the proper, gripped the bars and taken his correct foot down heavy at the accelerator once the sunshine grew to become eco-friendly. He veered correct, then swung a pointy left and used to be at the street inside seconds, the black sedan in pursuit.