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Dante’s Numbers: the seventh Nic Costa novel
Dante’s Numbers, the new Costa book, is now available in the UK and launches in the US next March. The story begins in the park of the Villa Borghese where a glittering audience has assembled for Rome’s cinema event of the year, a movie of Dante’s Inferno, one that has come to be surrounded by controversy.
Then tragedy strikes out of the blue, and the starry affair ends in violence and confusion… and the loss of the death mask of Dante Alighieri that Costa’s team were supposed to guard.
Watch the new video on Dante’s Numbers
The seventh Nic Costa novel, due out in the UK in October 2008 and in March 2009, is the subject of a new video on Blip.tv and Youtube. You can hear the author talking about the background to the book, the first Costa novel that travels outside Italy, and how the story moved to California.
To view the Blip.tv link click on the image or click read more to watch on this site. To see the smaller Youtube version, suitable for slower connections, please click here.
Explore the world of the seventh Nic Costa novel
You can see some of the Roman and Californian locations in Dante’s numbers in the maps below.
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The sixth Costa is hailed as ‘the best yet’
The sixth Nic Costa novel, The Garden of Evil, is winning rave responses from the critics, including coveted starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association. PW describes the work as ‘this dark jewel of a thriller’. Booklist’s Bill Ott declares, ‘Arturo Pérez-Reverte has long set the gold standard for mixing history, mystery, and modern life into literary stews of mouthwatering flavor and incredible subtlety, but it’s time to agree that Hewson now shares that position—and is on the verge of claiming it outright.’
Listen to a podcast about the seventh Nic Costa book
This fifteen minute podcast looks at the background to Dante’s Numbers and some of the events that shaped the book.
The Garden of Evil on the Page 99 Test
The Page 99 test is an interesting web site that asks authors to look at a single page of one of their books - 69 or 99 - and try to put what’s there in the context of the whole work. It’s run in tandem with the Campaign for the American Reader, ‘an independent initiative to encourage more reader to read more books’.
I’m happy to say you will find Page 99 of The Garden of Evil there, with my comments right now, and listed on the Campaign for the American Reader web site. Thanks to everyone associated with them for this opportunity.
Where in the world is…?
Well, not Wally, but Nic Costa and his colleagues. Most of the time they are in Rome, but in very specific areas, usually real ones. In a little while, though, they will be travelling to California. Want to know exactly where they go in the books?
It’s easy enough to track them through the site’s Google maps feature. Some of the books now have their own map pages which will show you the real-life locations in the books, from the talking statues of The Garden of Evil to the underground sites used in The Seventh Sacrament.