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Authors: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

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‘For how long?’

Francesca smiled. ‘Long enough for all of us to accept a natural explanation for the events we lived through. Don’t worry. Your friend Aldo Prada won’t say anything. He won’t want people thinking he’s a crackpot.’

‘Do you think it will be possible to keep it quiet?’

‘Why not? If those who could speak up decide not to, everything will return to normal. As if nothing ever happened. You’re the only person who stands to suffer. I don’t believe you’ll ever publish your findings about the statue of the lad of Volterra.’

‘Well, Sonia won’t ever publish her skeleton either . . . The official explanation is that it was destroyed in a fire caused by a short circuit. But at least I found you.’

‘You really were fond of that little boy, weren’t you?’

‘Yes.’

Francesca smiled again, this time with a teasing expression. ‘Then we’ll have to call ours Angelo,’ she said. ‘He’ll be the only real thing to come out of this whole story.’

 

THE ANCIENT CURSE

 

 

Also by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Alexander: Child Of A Dream

Alexander: The Sands Of Ammon

Alexander: The Ends Of The Earth

Spartan The Last Legion

Heroes
(formerly
The Talisman Of Troy
)

Tyrant

The Oracle

Empire Of Dragons

The Tower

Pharaoh

The Lost Army

The Ides Of March

 

To A
NNAMARIA

 

First published 2010 by Macmillan

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First published in Italian 2001 as Chimaira by
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