The Forever Girl: A Novel Alexander McCall Smith

Imprimatur by Monaldi & Sorti - Signed Edition\n\nHand Signed by Monaldi & Sorti to the Title Page \nPaperback Edition \nNew & Unread - Published 2009\n\n11 September 1683, Rome.\n\nRome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna, as the Islamic forces of the Ottoman Empire lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe.\n\nMeanwhile a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous Roman tavern to be placed under quarantine. Among this detained in the Locanda Donzello is the mysterious Atto Melani, a spy in the service of the French king. With the help of the young serving boy, he discovers a secret passage leading to a network of tunnels under the city.\n\nTheir nocturnal journeys into the Roman underworld lead them to some startling discoveries about the deadly enmity between Pope Innocent XI and Louis XIV, and a plot to unleash a weapon of mass destruction in the battle between Islam and the West. Meticulously re.