The Vengeance of San Gennaro (Tales of MI7 Book 3)

The Vengeance of San Gennaro (Tales of MI7 Book 3)

â€œThink through the suspense espionage thrillers that remain like phantoms in the brain and likely they will have been conceived by a British Isles author. Stepping as far back as the Sherlock Holmes style as presented by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and including the imagination of Ian Fleming's James Bond, we now add another master of the medium in J.J. Ward.â€ - Grady Harp, US Amazon Top 50 & Hall of Fame Reviewer and Amazon Vine Voice.

By universal consensus, there is only one exhibition worth seeing at this yearâ€™s Venice Biennale, Giuditta Cancellieriâ€™s Il Timore di Dio, consisting of six paintings of something as yet undisclosed to anyone. Donâ€™t bother buying tickets, though. A local authority injunction means no oneâ€™s getting in, not even the artistâ€™s closest associates. Since the announcement of Il Timoreâ€™s inclusion in the festival, the city has been filling with felons, and most commentators donâ€™t think thatâ€™s an accident.

Some people say the pictures depict Italyâ€™s most powerful gangsters, or its politicians, in compromising situations; some say they portray certain influential peopleâ€™s future deaths; some claim theyâ€™re detailed illustrations of the end of the world. Others are more cynical: the canvases are blank or even non-existent.

For Signorina Cancellieri is no ordinary artist. A twenty-five year old AIDS-victim from one of the toughest districts of Naples, sheâ€™s also closely linked to one of MI7â€™s old enemies, Constantius Sopa.

Just to complicate matters, the Veneto is poised on the brink of an election. If things go as everyone expects, it will secede from Italy and give birth to Repubblica Veneta. Everything is at stake. A lot of people stand to make a killing - in both senses.

As things come to a head, Agent Gavin Freedman is dispatched from London to find out just how intimate the link between Giuditta Cancellieri and Constantius Sopa is. Can she be persuaded to reveal his whereabouts? Or deceived into it? Or is she vastly more ingenious than anyone has given her credit for? Could the furore surrounding the pictures be merely a cloak for some vastly more destructive scheme not entirely hers?

Tales of MI7 is an open-ended catalogue of â€œcurrent affairs thrillersâ€ with a literary flavour. Each volume consists of a story complete in its own right.

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Categories: Political thrillers set in Venice and Veneto, MI5 and MI6 spy novels, espionage novels set in Rome and Florence and Venice, Secret Service thrillers from the UK, British intelligence novels set in Italy, Venice Biennale and Carnival novels, art world thrillers, literary spy thrillers.
Country USA
Manufacturer Amazon Digital Services
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Amazon Digital Services
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-16
Format	Kindle eBook

The Vengeance of San Gennaro (Tales of MI7 Book 3)

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