THE MEDUSA AMULET

Sinopsis de THE MEDUSA AMULET

The Medusa amulet. David Franco, a talented young scholar specializing in Renaissance art and literature at the Newberry Library in Chicago, is introduced to one of the library’s main benefactors: Kathryn Van Owen. A beautiful and wealthy widow with a mysterious past, Van Owen has a sketch of a mirror created by the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini – a mirror reputed to confer the power of immortality upon any who look into it on a moonlit night – and she is prepared to pay David a million dollars to find it for her. If the rumours of the mirror’s powers are true David could not only pay off his dying sister’s medical bills – he could offer Sarah a chance of survival. But David will need help if he is to piece together the clues scattered through art and history to the mirror’s current location. And there are others who have heard of the mirror’s powers and will stop at nothing to find it… In his stunning new thriller, Robert Masello blends past and present and fact and fiction to create a gripping race through history.