By Alex Archer, Michele Hauf
Da Vinci's maximum and most deadly legacy…
In the midst of a lovers' quarrel on a Venetian bridge, a couple of artwork thieves loses a valuable, stolen Lorraine move to the canal's murky waters. Suspecting a connection among the go, Joan of Arc and da Vinci, Annja Creed's former mentor, Roux, sends the archaeologist to supervise the quest for the lacking artifact. yet another person understands concerning the cross…knows sufficient to kill for it.
Despite numerous vicious assaults in the course of their underwater excursion, Annja and Roux's employed diver recovers the go. but if the diver's loyalties are known as into query and he disappears—along with the treasure—Annja is bound there's extra to the traditional item than Roux is letting on. She quickly discovers the go is just one piece in an problematic enigma—a key that, whilst mixed with a chain of musical notes, could free up one in all Leonardo da Vinci's such a lot fantastical innovations. however the expense Annja needs to pay to prevent this key from falling into the inaccurate fingers will be her lifestyles.
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