August 2010 Book of the Month.
Fans of the Italian-based Nic Costa series will find this, the eighth, a bit different from the norm. It seems to be Hewson’s outcry against political machinations and terrorism. It involves a secret group called Gladio which, according to the author’s notes, exists. We are in Rome, host city to the G8 conference, and the atmosphere is explosive, literally. With a mixture of Gladio intervention, the psychotic leader of an ancient sect, The Blue Demon, with his own agenda and our police team seemingly all pulling in different directions, this is fascinating stuff, incredibly thought-provoking and rather frightening.
Comparison: Dan Brown, Donna Leon, Barbara Nadel.
Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake a group of dead students, a murdered couple, a cryptic message and a kidnapped child. Now, the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered, seemingly by a strange young man dressed as an Etruscan god, detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved.
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Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake a group of dead students, a murdered couple, a cryptic message and a kidnapped child. Now, the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace.
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The Blue Demon was written by David Hewson and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The Blue Demon has 497 pages
Yes it is part of Nic Costa Series series
