Leonardo's Horse
- ISBN-10
- 1611026482
- ISBN-13
- 9781611026481
- Series
- Leonardo's Horse
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-11-24
- Publisher
- America Star Books
- Author
- Marco Caciolli
Description
Waterloo, June 1815: The army of Napoleon is about to launch an attack against the English army. 140,000 soldiers face a battle that will forever change the course of history... North Sea, March 1934: The ocean liner named "Queen," unaware of the drama that is taking place inside, glides quietly towards the Aleutian Islands. A terrible storm suddenly turns the sea into a wild beast and after a long and exhausting struggle, strikes its prey and drags her into its coils... Florence, December 1980: Nico Costa, a young Florentine archaeologist, was hired by a wealthy German art dealer named Helgermayer Rufus, to rediscover the missing "Leonardo's Horse," a masterpiece created by Leonardo da Vinci... What do these three events, so seemingly unrelated to each other, have in common? What fused them together? In a nutshell, these are the three pieces of a complicated puzzle that Nico Costa, a young Florentine archaeologist, seeks to settle. It is a puzzle whose value has launched courageous researchers, passionate aesthetes and collectors, and greedy billionaires to do anything to get a hold of this archeological find. The "Leonardo's Horse" is a treasure that aroused the determination of Nico Costa and his colleagues, the passion of a rich art dealer named Rufus Helgermayer and the beautiful Giulia, and the obsession of Gerald Lequerque, the heir to a family of Mafia, who vowed to steal the precious relic. So, in a whirlwind of twists and turns, the story, spanning fifty years of passion and deception, unfolds between the warm and mysterious mood of Egypt and the cold waters of the North Sea, following a faint trail peppered with chases, explosions, shootings, sunken treasure and archaeological finds. Computer entrepreneur, photographer and writer, Marco Caciolli is passionate about travel, adventure and mysteries.
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