by David Hewson · Pan Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330452588
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«Dante's Numbers» is the mystery novel by David Hewson, published by Pan Publishing in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The premiere in Rome of «Inferno», a movie based on the Divine Comedy, is disrupted when Dante's death mask is replaced by a macabre replica of the face of star Allan Prime. After an attack on actress Maggie Flavier, policeman Nic Costa and his team travel to San Francisco to guard the next premiere and recover the stolen piece, uncovering clues pointing to a plan more twisted than that of a simple Dante fanatic.
It is the seventh installment in the author's Nic Costa series. The novel, set between Rome and San Francisco, combines the crime genre with references to Dante's work.
Aimed at readers of crime fiction and suspense who enjoy fast-paced police plots with a cinematic setting.
David Hewson is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, has now been contracted to run to at least nine instalments by British, American, European and Asian publishers. The author's debut novel, Shanghai Thunder, was published by Robert Hale, in the United Kingdom, in 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries, and it has been reissued.
