The Sacred Cut

The Rome Series: Book 3

By: David Hewson

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

It's approaching Christmas in Rome and snow is falling in a way that only happens every 20 or 30 years. The city is soon paralyzed by an unseasonably icy grip, and in the dark corners of the Pantheon a grim and mysterious story begins to unfold.

Nic Costa and his partner Gianni Peroni are called to reports of an intruder. Instead they find a woman's naked body, scarred in a geometric pattern. Almost immediately they are met by a team from the FBI determined to take over an investigation into what they claim is a killer murdering American tourists around the world, in ways which link back to the mystical structure of the Pantheon itself.

But one agent, Emily Deacon, has a different story to tell, one that has a tragic personal dimension. Through her and an elusive Iraqi girl Laila, only witness to the death in the Pantheon, Nic Costa is pulled relentlessly into the world of the Iraq war and the shadowy secret agents whose job was to penetrate the regime of Saddam Hussein before the armed forces attacked.

Soon he is aware that there is a conspiracy at the heart of these deaths which runs back to Washington, and the past of Emily Deacon's dead father, a tangle of connections he has to unravel, even if it comes at a considerable personal and professional cost. A madman is loose in the frozen winter landscape of Rome, and as Costa soon realises, he is one the American agents know only too well.

©2005 David Hewson (P)2005 W.F. Howes Ltd.

great book

This is a really great listen. I listen to A LOT of books & this is one of the best.

It is a very good thriller with a similar thematic to the Da Vinci Code... but not at all a rip off.

For sure a must read

great read

Great read. Good characters. Good narration except for the American FBI agent. I hope audible picks up more of the books in the series

Good narrator; Terrible American accents

While the characters are well drawn and the Italians are well portrayed (even though the narrator has an English Accent!!),the American dialects are so distracting as to be laughable and/or irritating. Great story, though.

ponderous

The plot gets lost in ponderous narrative and monotone narrator. This story is promoted as a thriller/serial murder mystery but turns out to be a longwinded novel.

The Sacred Cut

This is one of the best books I heard lately.It is well written and tells not only a story with great characters, but shows a lot of the conveluted and corrupt mechanisms of States. The person is nobody, the interests of of a State and it's minions, all.This is book 3 in a great series. Since I could not find the other ones as audios, I bought the books. Great reads!!!!!