The deeper the second lieutenant digs into what her father knew, the more she begins to wonder: Was her father silenced before he could expose the truth? While she focuses on her investigation, American intelligence analyst Holly Boland finds a document among her father’s possessions that offers evidence of a shocking Cold War cover-up. Yet Kat knows that, when it comes to Venice’s most powerful and influential, money isn’t the only motive for murder. The dead man is identified as a senior partner in a small Catholic bank currently engaged in negotiations with one of Italy’s richest men. As a woman, she cannot penetrate the closed world of Italian freemasonry. But when she learns that the mask is a Masonic “hoodwink”-and that the circumstances of the man’s death are eerily similar to the Masonic punishment for betrayal-she suspects that her appointment has darker implications. Superiors inside the Venice Carabinieri have finally given Captain Kat Tapo permission to run her first murder case. On Venice’s popular Lido beach, a man is found lying on the shore, his throat slit and his tongue viciously torn out, and his face covered by an unusual antique mask. Army intelligence analyst Holly Boland embark on their most dangerous and disturbing journey yet. In this mesmerizing finale to the revolutionary Carnivia Trilogy-following The Abomination and The Abduction-Venetian police captain Kat Tapo and U.S.
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