Creator of a beautifully carved amulet that was once the proud possession of popes and princes, queens and conquerors. ‘In addition to its taut story, there is an impressive amount of scholarship, and enough detail to please art lovers and history buffs.’ Kirkus, starred reviewBenvenuto Cellini the master artisan of Renaissance Italy: goldsmith, sculptor… And here, at the very end of the known world, there’s nowhere to hide and no place left for the living to run.
For what is dead, it turns out, may not be gone. Were they the innocent victims of fear and superstition or were they something far darker? His search will lead from the barracks and battlefields of the Crimean War to the unexplored depths of the Antarctic Ocean, from the ill fated charge of the Light Brigade to an age old curse that survives to this day.Īs the ice around the murdered lovers begins to melt, Wilde will have to grapple with a miracle or a nightmare in the making. Now, in a bleak but breathtaking world of shimmering icebergs, deep blue crevas*ses, and never ending sun, Wilde must unravel the mystery of this doomed couple. Beside them a chest filled with a strange, and sinister, cargo. Until, on a routine dive in to the polar sea, he unexpectedly finds something else entirely: a young man and woman, bound with chains and sealed forever in a block of ice. Here, in the most inhospitable place on earth, he is simply looking to find solace… Journalist Michael Wilde his world recently shattered by tragedy hopes that a monthlong assignment to the South Pole will give him a new lease on life. In this haunting and suspenseful thriller, Robert Masello delivers an adventure that spans continents and centuries a spellbinding story that ranges from Victorian England to a remote antarctic research station, where an ancient glacier yields a shocking prize it has held captive for nearly two hundred years.
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